Tippecanoe County drainage board approves 2025 drain lists, multiple encroachment petitions and Dismal Creek drainage area

Tippecanoe County Drainage Board members voted Feb. 5 to approve the county’s 2025 regulated-drain assessment status list and a drain-classification report, to grant a series of encroachment petitions for broadband, sewer and development projects, and to adopt Resolution 2025-01 establishing the Dismal Creek impact drainage area.

County Surveyor Zach recommended approval of the assessment status list and the classification report and described the routine mechanics for marking drains “inactive” when their maintenance fund reaches a statutorily set cap. “I would recommend approval as presented,” Zach said when presenting the lists and later answered board questions about specific petitions and projects.

The approvals clear a batch of encroachment petitions tied to multiple projects: six Broadway Broadband crossings on the county’s east line (some extending into Carroll County), four petitions from Frontier Communications (two related to the Morehouse/Hadley Lake project and two farther east and south), encroachments and setback reductions for the Vita Lifestyle development (five encroachments and three reduction requests), 13 crossings for the Buck Creek–Colburn sewer conveyance, two encroachments tied to the City of Lafayette’s sanitary sewer work on Dismal Creek (reviewed alongside a…