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Commissioners authorize geotechnical borings and engineering for Mud Lake control structure after DNR changes permit requirements

5806191 · July 15, 2025
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Fulton County commissioners on July 15 authorized county staff to hire a geotechnical firm and pay additional engineering fees so the county can pursue a control-structure design for Mud Lake after the Indiana Department of Natural Resources rejected the county's earlier permit approach.

Fulton County commissioners on July 15 authorized county staff to hire a geotechnical firm to perform test borings and to pay additional engineering fees so the county can pursue a control-structure design for Mud Lake after the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) rejected the county's earlier plan.

County staff told the board that DNR reviewers would not accept the originally submitted permit — which proposed returning dredged material — and instead directed the county toward a control structure. County staff presented two cost estimates: $13,234 for geotechnical borings from Terracon and $9,950 for additional engineering work from RQAW, a combined sum of $23,184. Commissioners voted to authorize staff to proceed with those two expenditures and said the amounts would be included in an upcoming additional-appropriation…

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