CLARK COUNTY —
River Ridge Development Authority’s Board of Directors continues to address water issues facing the Commerce Center along Ind. 62.
The board approved a resolution at a meeting this week for water-supply improvements being completed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, as well as announced it had reached a settlement with Wastewater One LLC, in conjunction with the cities of Charlestown and Jeffersonville.
The entities involved reached an agreement March 11, according to Board President Mark Robinson.
As part of the settlement, Wastewater One will turn over operations of the treatment plants at the north and south ends of the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant to Jeffersonville and Charlestown.
Jeffersonville will take over 16-acres on the south end of the property, where it plans to eventually build a new $15 million sewer plant with greater capacity.
To be able to build the new plant, the city is leasing a second parcel of land — 24.4 acres — from River Ridge for $1 per year and another 9.9 acres likely will be acquired from the U.S. Army by Jeffersonville at cost.
“What we get is the commitment from the city to build a new sewer treatment plant here, which will be like 3 million gallons a day,” said River Ridge Executive Director Jerry Acy. “Today, we’re sitting here with 200,000 gallons-a-day [capacity], so it will greatly enhance our ability to develop the property and to have some excess capacity.
“When we do have a big water user show up, we’ll be able to deliver the water with the DNR [project] and then treat the water here.”
In addition to the expected cost of acquiring land, Jeffersonville paid more than $700,000 to Wastewater One to reach the settlement; River Ridge’s portion equaled $454,000 and the city of Charlestown was not part of the monetary settlement.
The agreement with Charlestown that it will take over the operations of the northern sewer treatment plant includes a provision to build a new collector system and a line running from the facility inside the old Army plant to Charlestown’s current treatment facility.
With Charlestown on the north end and Jeffersonville on the southern end, the treatment of wastewater inside River Ridge will be split between the two systems.
“It will greatly enhance our ability to market River Ridge,” Acy said.
In increasing the ability to handle more wastewater, DNR work will take care of the other side of water improvements by providing more water capacity.
“This is a milestone,” said Board Member Ned Pfau. “For the first time since the board started, we finally have the water and sewer situation where it ought to be in terms of attracting further development.”
Adoption of resolution — 10-2010 — officially approved the construction of three new water wells, which includes granting easements from the authority to DNR to allow construction along Longview Beach, a new water main to run along Waterline Road and a water tank near Ind. 62 on Waterline Road.
The project is expected to cost $4.5 million — paid for through a State Revolving Fund loan — and is being constructed by DNR.
The motion was unanimously approved, although board member David W. Evanczyk was not in attendance at Monday’s meeting.
Construction on DNR’s water-improvement plan is expected to begin in March and be completed by October.
IN OTHER BUSINESS
• Clark County Circuit Court Judge Dan Moore was on hand at the Monday meeting with County Councilman Kevin Vissing and resident Richard Lewman to present the board with a history of the property along the Ohio River and donate original plot maps to the authority.
Vissing and Lewman had relatives that owned property between the Ohio River and Ind. 62 when it was taken over by the U.S. government in the 1940s.
The purpose for the visit was also to ask for consideration when naming roads inside the Commerce Center for the former property owners.
One request has already been made to name a street at River Ridge for former Clark County Commissioner Paul “Whitey” Garrett, who was instrumental in transitioning the property from an ammunition plant into a commerce center.
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Jeffersonville law department still being negotiated
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