Sick of seeing the cesspools that accumulate in the nooks and crannies of the Canal where the flow isn't quite right? Think that the overabundance of algae is gross or that that pair of socks that has sunk to the bottom has become an eyesore?

Help is on the way.

At the Canal district meeting yesterday, a major clean-up effort was announced, which is scheduled to begin mid-November. The three-month project will not only clean up the Canal, but address filtration, aeration and flow issues to keep the Canal cleaner and prevent costly clean-ups in the future.

According to Maury Plambeck, director of the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, the Civil Site Group will oversee the three-month project.

Also in the works, Plambeck said, is a facelift for the Ohio Street basin, which will get an elevator, as well completely refinished granite stairways. Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects has been commissioned for the project.