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Township to fund initial hydraulic study for Locke Lake outflow; county funding years away
Summary
Commissioner Vetsch and County Engineer Chad Hausmann told Silver Creek Township the first step to control Locke Lake outflow is a hydraulic analysis the township must hire; the township would be responsible for the first $10,000 of engineering costs and county or state funding may not be available for years.
Commissioner Vetsch and County Engineer Chad Hausmann told the Silver Creek Township board on Aug. 6 that resolving Locke Lake’s outflow will begin with a hydraulic analysis the township must hire and pay for. They said the township is responsible for the first $10,000 in engineering costs and that county funds are unlikely to be available for at least one to two years; if state approval is required, funding could be three to five years away.
The county officials told the board the initial consultant study will determine whether the work would qualify as a Town Bridge project; if it did, money already spent on the analysis could count toward the first $10,000 engineering threshold for that program. If the work does not trigger a Town Bridge project, the township would carry the cost of the study.
Resident Johan Massmann urged the board to pursue the work aggressively, saying the township should press for a timely fix to better control water leaving Locke Lake. The board’s immediate next step is to hire a consultant to perform the hydraulic analysis and report findings to the board; any subsequent engineering or construction would follow the county and state approval processes described by Hausmann and Vetsch.
