Urban River Restoration Project Featured at EcoSummit 2012

(COLUMBUS, Ohio – September 20, 2012) In the weeks leading up to EcoSummit 2012, the City of Columbus and The Ohio State University are overseeing one of the largest efforts to return an urban area river to a more natural state. Workers recently removed a portion of a dam from the Olentangy River near the Ohio State campus, and work will soon begin to redefine the river’s channel upstream with riffles and pools, and the planting of native grasses and other plants.       “We certainly didn’t time the river’s restoration to coincide with EcoSummit 2012, but we’ll take full