Last month the ILB posted a story on the impact of environmental compliance on a small municipality, about Decatur Indiana's (population 10,000) new the Department of Stormwater Management. Access it here (use your browser's back link to return - it is on the old site).
Wednesday an interesting followup story was published here in the Decatur Daily Democrat.
This story in the Munster NWI Times reports on a local stormwater board, from Valparaiso in Poter County, in action. Some quotes:
"It's one of the oldest parts of city and records on the storm, sanitary and combined sewers are very complex. We are piecing together data from many decades. The city has gone out and done extra work to help us, and I think everybody is pleased with the progress we're making," Walesh said.Posted by Marcia Oddi at February 6, 2004 08:35 AMThe original concept was to spend about $1 million to put in storm sewers on Union Street, Brown Street and others in the area to drain the water into the Crosby Ditch and, eventually, Salt Creek. Then the city got complaints from residents of Franklin Street concerned the project would dump the water on them.
The city had hoped to do most of the work itself but discovered the project potentially could be much more complicated than originally envisioned and involve a much larger area. The project was included in the board's priority list to be completed using funds from a $3.5 million bond issue approved in the fall of 2002.