Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign on the side of the road indicating Weir Dam on Oct. 4, 2023. Richmond city crews just recently finished the deconstruction ...

The team designed the project using materials to ensure the weir, pictured in November 2023, would last for 100 years or more. Despite six major flood events, COVID-19 restrictions, substandard soil ...

The Whitewater River now flows unencumbered through a breach where the Weir Dam stood for more than a hundred years. A long-standing low-head dam on the Whitewater River in Richmond, Ind., is no more.

RICHMOND, Ind. — Philip Boomershine is one of many Richmond residents who fished at the Weir Dam ever since he was a child, back in the 1960s. Last Wednesday, Oct. 4, he was at the site of the dam to ...