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Adams County officials outline cleanup and enforcement steps for Country Acres mobile home park
Summary
County health and law-enforcement officials said the Country Acres wastewater tanks will be emptied and owners cited under the county nuisance ordinance as part of a multi-step plan to remove septic discharge and clear dozens of overgrown, abandoned mobile-home lots.
Adams County commissioners and county staff reported progress this week on long-running health and nuisance complaints at Country Acres, a mobile-home community east of the county seat, and described next steps including septic pumping, proof-of-haulage requirements and civil enforcement against property owners.
County health department staff and the sheriff’s office told the Adams County Board of Commissioners that Jeremy Wade of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) has discussed the site with a new majority property owner, Aaron Ellis, and that Ellis has indicated plans to have onsite wastewater tanks “emptying the tanks out here in the next month or 2,” including hauling waste offsite and disposing or crushing remaining structures. County staff said they will require documentation…
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