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PEORIA Quick quiz: what colors do you think lighted up the Murray Baker Bridge last weekend?
Did you guess the hues of Old Glory? That would ve made sense. You know, for that holiday whatchamacallit? Oh, yeah: Independence Day.
But last weekend, the bridge wasn t red, white and blue.
It was white, white and white.
Those are the plain, ol colors for any plain, ol day.
Why? The city forgot about the Fourth of July. It was an unfortunate oversight, city manager Patrick Urich told me. One person has the ability to make the change, and the lights were not programmed for the weekend.
Open streams ran through areas of Wayne that are now covered with hard surfaces and buildings.
Ithan Creek openly flowed near where where Radnor Middle School sits today.
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Nearby, the Wayne Natatorium was created by damming another creek. The lake created from the dam was a popular recreation spot and used for swimming in the summer and ice skating in the winter.
Over 100 years after these streams were covered for the growing Wayne community, many of those culverts, inlets and sewers are wearing out.
Now, due to a combination of all that impervious coverage and old infrastructure, flooding has become a major issue in the town.