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Council approves ARPA funding and appropriation votes after Webster Lake dam group requests hydrology study
Summary
The Webster Lake Conservation Association told the council it needs a $20,000 retainer and roughly $186,400 in hydrological and geotechnical work; the council approved funding recommendations and an additional appropriation for the study and related work.
The Kosciusko County Council voted to approve ARPA committee recommendations and to appropriate funds to begin hydrological and geotechnical studies of the Webster Lake dam after a presentation from the Webster Lake Conservation Association (WLCA).
WLCA representative Mike Weirich told the council the group had secured a written proposal from an engineering firm and that the study is time sensitive because of winter weather. "To start this study, WLCA needs to send a retainer payment in the amount of $20,000," Weirich said. He said the firm's lump-sum quote for hydrological and geotechnical studies was $186,400 and that the work is needed to support a facility plan for an anticipated conservancy district and to inform ongoing litigation with the Indiana Department of…
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