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How Did We Get Here? part 1
Why is the LEAP project important to residents of Greater Lafayette?
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April Sauer
In 2003, my husband, Chris Riley, and I built our log home from reclaimed barn timbers on a 10-acre lot. We put up all of the fencing around the property by hand, planted numerous trees, including an orchard of fruit and nut trees. We have approximately an acre under organic
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Heather Walsh
"My partner, Vince Lobello, and I live on S 700 W right near the Wabash River, and close to one of the test wells. Soon after they started drilling, we had issues with our water. The first issue was caused by a huge rust deposit that clogged the filter
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Nick O'Neill
Growing up in Dayton and Lafayette, Indiana afforded me the incredible blessings of being surrounded by naturally abundant waterways such as the Wabash River and the Wildcat Creek. Some of my favorite activities were fishing and creek-walking in the Wildcat, school field trips to the Tippecanoe Battlefield and Fort Ouiatenon
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Danny and Carla Kouns
"This nightmare started when large trucks mobilized into our driveway unannounced. It was in this moment we learned that they were contracted to drill the adjacent lot, though they wouldn't share why. When test site #1 pumping began, we promptly changed our anode rod because the smell
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Rebecca Schroeder
"We have lived in our home almost 3 years and have been amazed at our water pressure and quality of water; we have never had an issue with our water smelling like sulfur or any other issues until the pumping started summer 2023. We had no idea any testing
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Richard Meilan
I live within a mile of both INTERA test sites. Thus, I am interested in the results of their pumping tests. In early December, I started monitoring activity on their western-most test site daily, to ascertain when pumping had begun, because INTERA would not reveal when they intended to start
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Gentry Sheets
"It is very sad to see all this work (the investment in land and irrigation) over sixty-five years taken from our family through the IEDC's proposed water pipeline. Taking the opportunity that I wish to pass on to the fourth generation of our farm. The proposed water
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Carly Sheets
"This is a State manufactured crisis, in order to leverage more development, being paid for with taxpayer dollars. The State has paid for numerous water studies over the years and believes central Indiana to be running out of water in the foreseeable future. However, development continues. And their solution
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Granville Community
"Summer of 2023, without warning, INTERA pumped and dumped 2MG of potable water into the adjacent Wabash River for 6 days (12MG total), within 0.75mi of approximately 80 residents…For the first time ever, residents reported gravel in their filters, silt in their toilets, lowered water pressure and