“We’ve had some steady rainfall, but so far we’ve had no calls for flooded basements,” Rainey said. “In past years, we’ve had a few calls, but this year we’ve had none.”

The second and third stops on the tour were the site of the Oak Street interceptor and the proposed site of the controlled wetland. At Oak Street, the city is planning to build a 3.8 million gallon stabilization basin, or a large underground concrete tank, that would catch stormwater from larger storms.

After the water gets an initial treatment at Oak Street, it will move to the wetland where it will be treated by natural plants and algae before it goes into the White River.

“We are not going to build for a worst-case scenario, we are going to know the worst-case scenario,” Haag said.

Nally said the project is something that can be used statewide. There are 107 combined sewers in the state and the cost of treating combined sewers affects cities and towns nationally.

“This solution seems to be one of the more cost effective solutions we have seen,” Nally said.