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Work Threatening Indianapolis Wildlife Delayed

By Rachel Agler

Work Threatening Indianapolis Wildlife Delayed

June 18, 2010 Updated Sep 9, 2009 at 8:00 AM EST INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Water company officials have decided to delay until next year a construction project along an Indianapolis canal that environmentalists believed could kill at least hundreds of baby turtles and threaten other animals. Veolia Vice President Lou Ann Baker told residents at a community meeting Tuesday that the company would make changes to its plans for reducing erosion into the canal on the city's north side. The company had planned to start work in late September on removing dead trees and laying a quarter-inch thick sheet of material, covered by piles of stones, on the banks of a 2-mile stretch of the canal. Butler University biology professor Travis Ryan says delay until next spring will give baby turtles time to leave their nests and survive on their own. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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