Lafayette officials take steps to protect water supply as IEDC considers pipeline
The Wabash River in Lafayette, October 2022 (Eric Learned/IBJ photo). Local and state officials representing the Lafayette region are taking steps ...
The Wabash River in Lafayette, October 2022 (Eric Learned/IBJ photo). Local and state officials representing the Lafayette region are taking steps to protect the area's water supply amid growing concerns about the Indiana Economic Development Corp.'s plan to tap into a Wabash River aquifer and divert as much as 100 million gallons of water a day to a planned high-tech manufacturing district 35 miles away in Boone County. Two state lawmakers are drafting legislation that would create a permitting process and require a deeper public review of any effort in the state to pump more than 10 million gallons per day from a community's aquifer.