Citizens Energy has offered to purchase the conservancy district's assets in a move that could stop a controversial wastewater plant.
Pollution in Indiana's air and waterways could be having an impact on public health. We talked to experts about how the state should clean it up.He remembers when the corn field next door became a fenced-in asphalt lot. He recalls the time a bull escaped from the nearby stockyards and charged at him while playing in front of the house at 5 years old, sending him running for his tiny life. He remembers the smell emitting from Reilly Tar and Chemical just a mile and a half away.
The plant, planned for a seven-acre parcel just north of I-70, will serve roughly 600 parcels in the Ben Davis Conservancy District — a special taxing district that can manage water resources under state law. The board declined its first offer, made April 14, but has not yet responded to the second offer dated April 21, according to Citizens.
Citizens disputes that cost estimate and argues that the proposed plant would not provide the lowest cost of service for conservancy residents. that the plant will prevent even heavier industrial uses from being developed on the site. The site was previously zoned for heavy industrial use, but the change switched it to a special use district that would allow for wastewater treatment.
Jones, whose district includes the plant and West Indianapolis, did not respond to a request for further comment. Three miles to the east lies a manufacturing plant for Ingredion, a manufacturer of sweeteners, starches and other food ingredients. The neighborhood group argues that the plant violates the West Indianapolis land use plan, incorporated into the city’s long-term comprehensive plan for future development.
“We’ve been a little frustrated,” he said. “We keep getting told that our community wasn’t at the table – that’s not our fault when every communication was made possible to inform the public.”There's also a dispute about what process the Belmont plant uses to prevent foul odors. “Further, the proposed will prevent the land from being used for heavy industrial uses such as another foundry, slaughterhouse, etc. and will minimize traffic and noise on S. Tibbs Avenue as compared to the prior use,” the board said in its statement.
Rates were renegotiated through the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. Wholesale customers like the conservancy district were given through 2029 to ease into the newer, higher wholesale rate to avoid sticker shock through an agreement unraveled in two phases. By the beginning of the second phase in 2026, the conservancy board argues, the Citizens treatment cost would be at least $3.25 per 1,000 gallons of water — a cumulative increase of over 1,000% from 2018.
“The anticipates continuing to utilize the use fee and the ad valorem property taxes as methods of funding the operations and debt service,” the board said.Sharon Coleman and her husband can afford to pay the user fee in addition to the property tax, she said, but she worries about her 92-year-old father in law on social security, or her widowed aunt next door in her 70s.
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