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Outrageous! Stealing resources from other municipalities and jurisdictions that will hamper their ability to seek economic development in the future. How does 25M gallons a day not impact anyone’s capacity? Just be honest. They selected a site that couldn’t provide the resources to support the project. Sounds like poor planning from the IEDC.
You are 100% correct. As a Boone County resident, I can only say this project has devastated our community and, rather than admit the error and try to correct it, the powers that be will continue to run with this rather than admit their incompetence from the start.
This is ludicrous. If they don’t have enough water, move the development to where there is water. All you have to do is look at the Colorado and see where this is going to end.
100%
As a Boone County resident, I have a front row seat to this fiasco. Note the use of the words “potential”, “expect”, “possibility”, “somewhere down the road”, “possibly”, “possible” and “likely” in this article. Sounds like a solid, well defined plan to me. This project was a failure from the start. Who plans a development of this magnitude and doesn’t factor in the availability of basic resources like water? Someone who is spending your tax dollars and has nothing to lose and nothing to be accountable for, that’s who.
California, New York, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and other states have been moving water across their states for generations now. It’s what happens when the resource is unevenly distributed in relation to where people want to live, farm, or do business.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the idea, especially since Indiana has some legal protection against large groundwater withdrawals by neighbors drying up one’s well.
Left out Arizona and New Mexico. And probably other states.
Chris is right! Not that many years ago Indianapolis was investigating a pipeline from Monroe reservoir to augment the Indy supply. It happens and we must keep planning and trying.
I agree with Chris.
How is it that Citizen’s bowed out of a 10 million gallon per day of water commitment but now is agreeing to a 25 million gallon a day commitment. Westfield and Whitestown better look carefully at this agreement.
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Westfield and Whitestown are both undergoing significant growth themselves. I sure hope someone thoroughly reviewed their long term water needs to insure they would not be impacted before agreeing to divert their water to another locality.
The mayor of Westfield issued a statement saying that Westfield is a net importer of water already through Citizens’ regional system.
That silence you hear is Indianapolis, Geist area, and Johnson County residents (who live in productive source water areas) NOT complaining about the north and northwest suburbs stealing water.
In the immortal words of Don Henley, “Get over it”.
Agreed.
Look at the LEAP property at 300 N Philadelphia St, La Porte IN, paid with tax credits by David Roberts, IEDC