Anderson has been canoeing the Olentangy for over 30 years. "He’s a professional photographer but fell in love with the river and goes out canoeing quite a bit. "George Anderson comes to mind," Fay said. I wanted to see first-hand if there was still a bend near Antrim, but recent rains made canoeing the swollen river impossible. "Honestly, it does look like there have been changes from 1902 to 1968," Fay says.Ī map of Route 315, out of a book titled “State Route 315: Ackerman Road to Interstate 270," shows the location where the Olentangy River was moved. Fay compared the 1902 map with one from the 1960s. She found a map that shows that, at a point just below present-day Antrim Park, the Olentangy turns west, then south, then turns east before resuming its southerly course. That’s where I met Laura Fay, who pulled something out of a library of historic maps from 1902. So I paid a visit to the offices of FLOW, Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed. But, Badanes says, there’s no one left at ODOT who can speak more specifically about the project, which dates back to the 1960s. The Olentangy, she says, was rerouted at the I-270 Interchange and just south of Antrim Park. The short answer is “Yes.” That’s the word from Breanna Badanes at the Ohio Department of Transportation. And I’ve always been curious what sections were moved and why." "I heard from somebody at the MetroParks that portions of the Olentangy River were moved when Route 315 was being built. "I am a volunteer with the MetroParks," Mattingley says. Listener Valerie Mattingley rides the bike trail often. Running alongside is a popular bike trail and beside it, the Olentangy River. Traffic thunders along State Route 315 between downtown Columbus and I-270 North. You ask the questions, you vote for one of the questions and we answer. This story is part of the Curious Cbus project.
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