{"id":50294,"date":"2015-04-06T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=50294"},"modified":"2020-12-24T10:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:44:47","slug":"river-summit-2015-but-what-about-the-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2015\/04\/06\/river-summit-2015-but-what-about-the-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"River Summit 2015: But what about the Rivers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News release from the Tri-State Watershed Alliance:<\/p>\n

River Summit 2015 – APRIL 8th, 9th, AND 11th 2015<\/strong>
\nBut what about the Rivers?<\/em><\/p>\n

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(April 6, 2015) – For three days this week, the Tri-State Watershed Alliance will be hosting the 2015 River Summit in downtown Fort Wayne Indiana at the Grand Wayne Convention Center. The summit will bring together agriculture and urban groups to discuss, experience, and celebrate our most valuable resource – WATER.<\/p>\n

Regionally, there is a lot of interest in our three rivers. Not only does Fort Wayne have designs on its rivers – but so does New Haven, Decatur, Auburn, Defiance OH and Bluffton on the Wabash just to name a few.<\/p>\n

But, are the rivers Safe to be on?<\/p>\n

What can the rivers offer as Quality of Place opportunities?<\/p>\n

What Economic Development opportunities are possible as a result of better understanding our rivers?<\/p>\n

The 2015 River Summit will bring experts from across the region, country, and locally to take a hard factual approach to these three questions.<\/p>\n

“The community has seen the culmination of 18 months of planning for Riverfront Development. A big question in some minds is, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat about the Rivers themselves?'” said Tri-State Watershed Alliance Executive Director Dan Wire. “This river summit will answer that question and demonstrate that our rivers can become the asset that our community desires to have.”<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the Summit we expect the participants to be empowered with the knowledge they have gained to:<\/p>\n