Neighbors listen, take samples as second LEAP test set to start
Next round of test well pumping is expected this week along the Wabash River in the Granville Bridge area, as the IEDC’s controversial tap-and-take study continues for the LEAP district and beyond.
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GRANVILLE AREA NEIGHBORS LISTEN, TAKE SAMPLES AS SECOND LEAP TEST SET TO START
The clear water in a half-filled, eight-ounce Ball jar is a starter kit, of sorts. An experiment on the front line of a fight against a pipeline that promises to measure water by the tens of millions of gallons a day.
Rick Meilan, a retired Purdue forestry professor, collected the water from an outdoor tap from his well, a black marker on a tear-off of blue painter’s tape pressed on the lid reading “19 Nov 23 6:00 p.m.”
Carrying the sealed jar outside Sunday afternoon, Meilan made note of the silence, the sound of wet snow falling from branches distinct on the deck and in the thick pine needles outside the log home tucked far back on 40 acres from a secluded stretch of County Road 75 South in western Tippecanoe County.
The next step in the home experiment, he said, could come as soon as Monday: “We’ll all listen for the generators. That’s when we’ll know.”
About a mile west, just down the road from the Granville Sand Barrens and the Roy Whistler Wildlife Area, a pair of 40-acre properties owned and managed by the NICHES Land Trust that neighbor his land, Texas-based INTERA was scheduled to start a second well test near the turn at County Road 75 South and 825 West in an ongoing study of the aquifer along the Wabash River.
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