Second well test done for LEAP pipeline; Granville neighbors fight being an ‘afterthought’

Water flowed for three days from INTERA test well site along the Wabash River, eight miles west of Lafayette. Granville neighbors are monitoring their water, press lawmakers to keep fighting IEDC plan

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SECOND WELL TEST DONE FOR LEAP PIPELINE; GRANVILLE NEIGHBORS FIGHT BEING ‘AFTERTHOUGHT’

Stepping over downed tree limbs and saplings dotting the soft but dry, sandy river bottom of a slough behind Goose Island, Rick Meilan points to a pipe propped up along the bank, spilling fresh groundwater Sunday into the Wabash River.

Meilan, a retired Purdue forestry professor, had been trekking to the spot daily from his home a mile away for the past three weeks, waiting for signs of pumping on the second test well site in an Indiana Economic Development Corp.-funded study into aquifer supplies in western Tippecanoe County.

Rick Meilan talks Sunday evening about how a pipe from an INTERA test site had been pumping out groundwater for three days into a Wabash River slough, about eight miles west of Lafayette. (Photo: Dave Bangert)

Since Friday, the water had been flowing, and Meilan had shared photos with his Granville area neighbors.