Coming to a cellar near you
WATKINS PARK, with its meandering stream and its thicket of greenery, is as bucolic as downtown Indianapolis gets. But look a little closer—or inhale a little deeper—and reality intrudes. “My God, look at that crap!” shouts Tom Neltner. As an activist environmentalist, he knows whereof he speaks, and there it is: raw sewage, as well as condoms, clearly visible in the stream. “Floatables” is the official euphemism for them. “Sinkables”? Don't ask.
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