Three Bid for Water Park by RAY COONEY President Rod Ashman
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Friday, March 13, 2015 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 75 cents Three bid for water park By RAY COONEY president Rod Ashman. years. Portland City Council in The Commercial Review “They’re all pretty close, which May approved funding for 68.4 Bids for the Portland Water means they’re pretty competi - percent of the project up to Park project are in. tive. $2.25 million, and a committee Portland Park Board on Board plans to “I was scared that they might was formed to raise the remain - Thursday opened three bids for come in at $4 million, and we’d ing money. the project, which will replace select contractor be out of business here. So I The new facility will include the 55-year-old Portland Pool, think we’re in business here, a lap/competition pool, dump with all of them coming in just for project next week and we’ll be able to work with bucket, lily pad walk, slide and under the $3.3 million engi - something here and go for - zero entry as well as new rest - neer’s estimate. HWC Engineer - ward.” rooms and a concession stand. ing will review the bids, and the Kyle Lueken of HWC Engi - Park board member Donald park board tentatively set a in with the low bid for Portland tional cost for an alternate — neering will review the bids to Gillespie asked if equipment at meeting for 4 p.m. Thursday to Water Park at $3.21 million. the addition of a second slide — make sure they meet specifica - the skate park located northeast choose a contractor. MacDougall Pierce Construc - with Muhlenkamp at $75,700, tions, and the board will then of Portland Pool could be The board also agreed to pur - tion of Fishers was next at $3.22 RLTurner at $77,000 and Mac - select a contractor. moved to Milton Miller Park chase a new lawnmower and million, and Muhlenkamp Dougall Pierce at $78,500. Discussions for the new facil - before construction on the new discussed possible improve - Building Corporation of Cold - “We were hoping for some - ity to replace Portland Pool, facility begins. Street and parks ments at Portland Memorial water, Ohio, followed at $3.296 thing to come in under $3 mil - which has had a variety of superintendent Ryan Myers Park. million. lion, but we weren’t sure what maintenance problems, have said he plans to do so. RLTurner of Zionsville came Each firm also gave an addi - was out there,” said park board been ongoing for more than two See Bid page 2 Committee focuses on air quality By DEVIN ZIMMERMAN is that the conditions caus - The Commercial Review ing odors to spread from The focus for the coun - CAFOs can vary greatly. ty’s confined feeding oper - Variables such as climate, ation study commission average wind conditions, Thursday was the control the type of animals in the of airborne pollution pro - farm and even the feed duced by CAFOs as well as used can effect the spread water and soil quality in of airborne pollution. Indiana. This makes the selection In a continuation of the of setback regulations dif - CAFO committee’s meet - ficult to nail down, said ings focused on public Heber. education, a speaker from “The whole idea of set - Purdue University as well backs isn’t an exact sci - as representatives from ence,” he added. “It just both Indiana Department isn’t. of Environmental Man - In Jay County, setbacks agement and Indiana are 2 miles for Portland, 1 State Department of Agri - mile for Redkey and Pen - culture visited Jay County nville and a half mile for to share their knowledge Salamonia and Dunkirk. on those issues. Confined feeding opera - “The number one issue tions in the county also the industry faces is must be at least: odors,” said Albert Heber, •1,550 feet from any area a professor of agricultural zoned rural residential and biological engineer - •1,250 feet from any ing at Purdue University existing church, school, The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald and specializes in the business, public building study and control of the or area zoned commercial airborne pollutants creat - •750 feet from any resi - Lots to read ed by CAFOs. dence not owned by con - Heber has run studies fined feeding operator Audrey May looks over some of the dozens of books to be given away Thursday during around the state in which •100 feet from any road Pennville Elementary School’s 10th annual Literacy Night. he measures to what or highway right-of-way extent odors are spreading •100 feet from any prop - from CAFOs and imple - erty line ments solutions. The committee also He has used natural fil - heard from Logan Garner, ters, which are biodegrad - a representative of Indi - Board tables flap gate decision able filters placed over ana Department of Agri - By DEVIN ZIMMERMAN Two companies also With Portland’s current They placed a second ventilation units to con - culture. Relating to The Commercial Review placed bids to take over the curbside recycling con - bid offering a two-year trol emissions. But a CAFOs, Garner focused Portland Board of Public city’s curbside recycling tract expiring April 1, the contract with the first downside to those is the primarily on the care of Works opened bids Thurs - service. Board members board also opened bids year requiring payment fact that they rely on mois - topsoil and runoff. day for both the upcoming Bill Gibson, Jerry Leon - from Best Way Disposal of $4.11 per unit and $4.24 ture to function properly. “There is a huge push flap gate project and the hard and Mayor Randy and Waste Management. for the second year, or just The other option Heber both nationally and across city’s curbside recycling Geesaman tabled both mat - They were based on 24,000 a single year for $4.24. has explored is the use of the state to build soil program. ters for review until a meet - recycling units and vary - Waste Management, trees and shrubs to con - health,” Garner said. Three bids were placed ing at 10 a.m. March 27. ing time spans. represented by Melinda trol the spread of airborne “Really I think, there is for the sewer flap gate proj - For the flap gate project, Best Way Disposal, rep - Antell, offered two bids as pollution. The most effec - not a magic bullet for it.” ect, which will involve the Landon Excavating, Port - resented at the meeting by well. Based upon weekly tive method, he said, is to Garner discussed the installation of 10 new land, placed a bid of Mark Landring, placed pick-ups the first bid plant shrubs nearest the positive effects of no-till sewer gates around the city $18,600, Culy Contracting, one bid with a one-year called for either a one- building, with evergreens farming, based upon the to help with flooding issues. Winchester, submitted a bid contract for $4.06 per unit, year contract at $4.30 per behind those and finally fact that it doesn’t disturb The three bids varied great - of $57,810 and Watson Exca - two years for $4.15 per unit, two years for $4.41 or deciduous hardwoods phosphorous, which helps ly, with the highest and low - vating, Redkey, topped the unit and three years for three years for $4.52. after that. They all act to in reducing runoff. est more than $55,000 apart. list at $76,145 bid. $4.24. See Gate page 2 filter air, causing odor par - Mary Lou Renshaw ticles to drop to the from IDEM discussed her ground more quickly. department’s responsibili - As of now, Indiana does ty for the maintenance not enforce statewide reg - and monitoring of water - Ferguson calm after shootings ulations on setbacks for sheds in Indiana. She By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER in the wake of a scathing Justice Michael Brown, whose shooting CAFOs, or a sanctioned described how impaired Associated Press Department report on racial bias in death by a Ferguson police officer buffer zone between the biotic communities, or the FERGUSON, Mo. — Protesters its law-enforcement practices. in August made the city a national feeding operations and loss of natural life in called for calm but vowed to keep A larger crowd of about 200 pro - focal point. other structures. These water sources, can be pushing for change in Ferguson a testers gathered later outside the “We’ll not be derailed in the pur - are regulated by local ordi - caused by both sedimenta - day after the shooting of two offi - police department, but the scene suit of justice by anybody or any - nance, said Heber. And ry deposits as well as cers in front of the city’s police was a marked contrast to the previ - thing that wants to get in our way,” sometimes, houses and being habitat driven. Sedi - department heightened tensions in ous night, when fights broke out said the Rev. Traci Blackmon, a other structures can be mentary deposits pertain the St. Louis suburb. before the shootings. member of the state’s Ferguson trapped within a zone to runoff into water Dozens gathered for a candlelight Some called for specific changes: Commission who led the prayer where odors are an issue sources, while habitat-dri - vigil Thursday night, where they the resignation of Ferguson’s vigil at a public plaza in downtown because of the close prox - ven reductions can be expressed sympathy for the wound - mayor or the disbanding of the Ferguson near the police depart - imity of a CAFO.