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Whiteland stormwater board approves routine items and reviews plan to map system, tackle neighborhood flooding
Summary
The Whiteland Town Stormwater Management Board approved its minutes and voucher packet 3-0, reviewed financials, and heard an MS4 coordinator update urging engineering-level mapping, targeted repairs in the Mapler neighborhood and investigation of sinkholes at 140 Pinedale.
WHITELAND, Ind. — The Whiteland Town Stormwater Management Board on May 13 approved the April meeting minutes and the current voucher packet and spent most of its meeting on stormwater system oversight and planning.
The board voted 3-0 to accept the April minutes and to approve the voucher packet. Those recorded as voting yes were Britney Collins, Jamie Dine and Kinders. Movers and seconders were not specified in the meeting record.
Finance staff reported the stormwater fund balance and recent activity. The transcript lists the fund balance as 1,323,66958 (read aloud), month-to-date revenue of $76,260.11, and bank interest of $2,846.45; staff also read a disbursement figure that was unclear in the record but was described in the meeting as roughly $26,000. Board members asked about two new appropriation codes added during the budget process: a "storm water HR" code to cover one employee's benefits and a "storm water flood plane" code, for which $600 was budgeted for floodplain improvements. Staff noted an unbudgeted uniforms expense of $170.14 that will likely be moved to a budgeted line.
The meeting focused on operational needs identified by the MS4 coordinator, who said routine construction inspections show contractors largely complying with controls but that the town lacks survey-grade mapping data (in particular, pipe "inverts" and precise elevations). "One of the things we want to do in the future is to hire a engineer to do the storm water side mapping," the MS4 coordinator told the board, describing plans to engage firms with surveying capability to collect elevations, locate hidden inlets and flag structures that may need replacement.
The coordinator singled out the Mapler neighborhood west of State Road 31 as a likely multi-phase project because stormwater collects on roads and in front yards there. A board member raised a sinkhole complaint at 140 Pinedale; staff said they had inspected the site with Armando and contractor Jesse Jones and found a possible old farm tile beneath the hole that may be contributing to erosion. Board members discussed photographing the site and continuing monitoring.
The board also heard from Fred of Lock Mueller Group, a consulting firm that offered examples of recent system-mapping work. "We actually went out to the field, took pictures, sizes, and the condition of all the storm water system that they have," Fred said, describing a GIS-based report that ranks repairs and enables complaint-driven site mapping.
Staff said they will pursue quotes from engineering firms (United Consulting and Lock Mueller Group were mentioned as possibilities), continue inspections in the Arlington/Mapler areas, and meet next week with Johnson County partners to explore a shared stormwater-quality education website for regionwide outreach. The board adjourned at about 6:17 p.m.
