Evansville Temprarily Closed South End Of Downtown Greenway For Sunrise Pump Station Construction

Press release from the City of Evansville:

April 16, 2020

(April 16, 2020) Starting Monday, April 20, access to a portion of the Greenway trail on the downtown riverfront will be temporarily closed for approximately one year for construction of the Sunrise Cascade and Sunrise Outfall.

A construction fence will be installed blocking all access to the south end of the trail near the Greenway turnaround at Sunset Park. Public access to the Greenway will be available from the area behind the Evansville Museum at 411 S.E. Riverside Dr.

The cascade and overlook are part of major improvements underway at the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility East Wastewater Treatment Plant, including the construction of a pumping station with a pumping capacity of 40 million gallons a day. The Greenway trail will reopen when the Sunrise Pump Station project is complete in 2021.

Click here to see renderings of Sunrise Pump Station.

This press release was produced by the City of Evansville. The views expressed here are the author’s own.