Wichita has installed new, larger warning signs at an Arkansas River dam where a 24-year-old man drowned earlier this year.
Brian Bergkamp drowned in July at Wichita’s 21st Street dam as he tried to help another kayaker. The group of kayakers he was with didn’t see the small, faded yellow warning signs on the bridge until it was too late. Bergkamp’s body was found in the river nearly three weeks later, 6 miles away.
In 1979, two kayakers - Andy Abbott and Bradley Berschauer - also died at the same dam.