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HIGH: 54 LOW: 47 Indiana now has Carmel will send 6,907 positive cases 50,000 COVID-19 test kits to New York The REPORTER done by local symptomatic be- “I have been assured Carmel Mayor Jim high-tech med- fore testing.” by our labs and health Brainard, working with ical firms who Vipin care facilities locally that Carmel-based Apex Med- have answered Adhlakha, who making this donation will ical, Zak Khan and Aria the call to help. co-founded Apex not jeopardize the health Diagnostics, has arranged “We must Medical, said the and safety of our frontline for the donation of 50,000 be able to look new firm is able workers or our communi- CDC-approved COVID-19 back on this mo- to produce about ty,” said Brainard. “There test kits to be shipped to ment in time and 12,000 kits per are enough kits to test all New York. It will take know that we day, running two who want to be tested here about two weeks to get the did all we could Brainard shifts. The firm and now we can offer our kits made and ready to send to help fight the battle has enough materials on assistance to those who east. Apex Medical is a new against this historic and hand to make 250,000 to cannot produce enough company established just deadly virus,” said Brain- 500,000 kits. Several orders kits to keep up with de- this week with a mission to ard. “Countries that have for kits have already been mand. I have reached out meet the national shortage tested widely have seen received from labs located to my colleagues in New of federally-approved test more success with level- in North Carolina, Ohio, York to begin coordinating kits. ing the curve and reducing Kentucky and Maryland. this effort. The reduction in New York has become number of people catching The donation planned outbreaks that widespread Graphic provided by Indiana State Department of Health one of the hardest-hit epi- the virus because they are for New York will not im- testing can provide will On Friday, the Indiana State Department of centers of the global pan- able to quarantine those pact local testing efforts. help give our healthcare Health released the latest statistics for the demic and Carmel city of- who test positive. They are Adhlakha said he plans to and scientific fields time to number of positive COVID-19 cases across ficials say they are proud able to determine if the vi- send 50,000 kits to New better prepare. We are very Indiana. Hamilton County, which now has 19 to be able to lend a hand, rus exists in someone even York City and keep a supply determined to do all we can deaths, remains third for number of cases at 431. thanks to the work being though they may not be of 50,000 for local testing. to help.” Carmel’s Meet Me on Main goes live today State awards The REPORTER Me on Main include: Meet Me on Main is bringing the Carm- CCA Gallery & Gifts will feature local $3.5M for local el Arts & Design District to you LIVE from glass artist, Lisa Pelo. Facebook. Your favorite merchants and Indiana Artisan will have four artists activities will join from 5 to 8 p.m. on the showcased during this virtual event. These road projects artists include Gabriel Lehman, Pam Hurst, Carmel Arts & Design District Facebook The REPORTER page. It is easy to join … just click here. Dave Lee and Rebecca Lowery. Governor Eric J. Holcomb and Indiana Be smart. Don’t come to Main Street. Stay Carmel Art on Main Gallery will Department of Transportation Commis- home and stay healthy and enjoy this event feature artists Nancy Keating and Kim sioner Joe McGuinness have announced from the safety and comfort of your home. Greene. Keating will give a sneak preview that 214 Indiana cities, Take a selfie for a chance to win! #Car- of the upcoming community chip in mosaic towns and counties melCares To encourage community par- mural. Graphic provided received a combined ticipation, please take pictures with your Bub’s Burgers will discuss grilling and $126.5 million in quarantine buddies watching the virtual tiful spring flowers with online as Art Lab some safety tips for summer grilling. state matching funds event or doing the craft and share on the live streams its interactive craft. All you will The Premier Group will give a virtual for local road projects Arts & Design District Facebook page and need is paper of your choice, scissors, glue tour inside the Indiana Design Center. through the Next Lev- the #CarmelCares Facebook Group for a stick (or tape) and a stick of any sort (small other fun features include: Music el Roads: Community chance to win a $100 gift card. stick from the yard, skewer or pencil). from Artist Development Co., The Olive Crossings Initiative. The Art Lab invites you to make beau- Featured Merchants for April’s Meet Mill and Evan Lurie Gallery. Locally, the cities of Fishers, Noblesville Holcomb and Westfield each re- ceived $1,000,000. Hamilton County was awarded $567,288.87. DIGGING DEEP BIOSWALES & STORM WATER “Hoosier communities are able to take gravel pit to public park nature’s water filter on more needed road work and do it in re- Let’s step back in time 10,000 years. Back to when massive ice sheets Look! What do you see in front of you? The ditch you see is actually cord time thanks to Community Crossings,” called glaciers covered Central Indiana. called a bioswale. Look at the orange map of Indiana. Do you see the horizontal black Bioswales are usually found in parking lots and along roadways. After Holcomb said. “Our commitment to partner- line in the middle of the state? That is the lower glacial boundary from it rains, water runs along the surface and collects in the bioswale. Glacial Till the Wisconsin glaciation. As the temperature changed, these glaciers Then it slowly filters into the soil before returning to groundwater or Wisconsin Glacial Till Limit ing with cities, towns, and counties on vital eventually disappeared and left behind unsorted rock, sand and gravel Not Glacial Till other water bodies. Bioswales help remove debris and contaminants called glacial till. The orange area on the map shows where glacial till that would otherwise pollute our water bodies! Look at the Founders infrastructure helps build strong communi- is found in Indiana — and it’s right here in Founders Park! Park map to the right. Can you find all the bioswales? Before Founders Park was a park, it was an active sand and gravel ties poised for investment and job growth.” mine, called a quarry. In 1999, Martin Marietta donated 37 acres for the park to the City of Carmel. The old quarry is now a lake that To qualify for funding, local govern- serves as a habitat for fish, birds and wildlife. It is also a stormwater detention pond that treats, stores, Birds love water! Plants love water! and slowly releases stormwater Water bodies are important resting Some plants like water more than others. We use ments had to provide local matching funds spots for birds and wildlife. Do you see any birds runoff from the park, surrounding plants that really love water in a bioswale. See if on the pond? you can spot any of the water-loving plants in the neighborhoods, and even Hazel – 50 percent for larger communities or 25 New England Aster Ironweed Swamp Rose Founders Park bioswales pictured on the left. Dell Parkway before releasing it to Symphyotrichum novae-angliae Vernonia fasciculata Hibiscus moscheutos Cool Creek. Grab your fishing pole percent for smaller communities – from a and see what you can catch! Sand & Gravel Mine, 1974 Founders Park, 2019 funding source approved for road and bridge construction. They must also submit an IN- DOT-approved asset management plan for maintaining existing roads and bridges. State law requires annually that 50 per- TAPPING THE AQUIFER THE CARMEL WATER CYCLE cent of the available matching funds be awarded to communities within counties the well source to sink with a population of 50,000 or fewer. Wells contain more history underground than can be seen on the surface. Artesian well Water well Our water is endlessly recycled through the water cycle. Water passes through the atmosphere as vapor then precipitates to earth as rain or At the surface, a wellhead can be in an enclosed building, like you see Pipeline Loam Unconfined snow eventually evaporating and returning to the atmosphere. here, or out in the open up to several feet above ground. But if you look aquifer Water level 1 2 below the ground, the well extends all the way down to the aquifer! Sand In Carmel, all of the water we use is groundwater. That groundwater Many aquifers in Indiana are unconfined aquifers or “water table” Sandstone is stored in an aquifer, or a porous rock and sediment layer saturated aquifers that form in sediment called glacial outwash. Glacial outwash Mesh filter Sand with water with water. 3 4 is a layered mix of large and small rock and sediment that was left Clay Lower artesian The water you drink from your tap comes from an aquifer. How does it behind from the Wisconsin glaciation some 10,000 years ago.