Marshall County sewer project on hold pending funding and local agreement; consultant reports low replacement feasibility on many lake lots

Kenny, a lead engineer for JPR (the district’s design consultant), told the Marshall County Regional Sewer District board that preliminary design work for Pressure Sewer Area 1 (PSA‑1) is about 90% complete but that the firm has paused many on‑the‑ground activities after the Indiana Finance Authority told JPR it would not finalize a funding package while a local disagreement among elected officials remained unresolved.

Kenny said the project area covers about 1,315 acres and includes roughly 596 residential properties; he reported JPR has met with about 125 property owners, completed about 89 of 92 requested site visits, and received 100 of an expected 580 easement packages. He said an analysis using federal soil maps shows about 13% of project soils are classified as unusable for on‑site septic, 60% as very limited and 27% as slightly limited; JPR’s current professional judgment is that fewer than 20% of existing home sites have adequate, available space for a compliant replacement septic system.

Kenny walked the board through other project facts he said motivate the district’s approach: about 32% of the PSA‑1 acreage…