MUNCIE – Economic development officials in eight East Central Indiana counties on Monday endorsed the Mounds Lake reservoir project.
In a statement released Monday afternoon, the executive directors or CEOs of economic development organizations in Blackford, Fayette, Grant, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Rush and Wayne counties called for a “thorough exploration in hopes of putting Mounds Lake on the map.”
“Mounds Lake can play a substantial role in ensuring that the future of East Central Indiana is prosperous,” the economic development officials’ statement said.
The only East Central Indiana economic development organizations not part of the release are those from the two counties where the reservoir would actually be built: Delaware and Madison counties.
Delaware County economic development officials have not stated a position on the project, although the Delaware County commissioners and county council have voted against it.
In Madison County, the Corporation for Economic Development is the driving force behind the reservoir project. Anderson City Council has so far endorsed the project.
Two years after it was announced, the Mounds Lake proposal’s next step would be a commission that would oversee the next phases in building the reservoir, which would be created by damming White River in Anderson, causing the river to back up past Daleville and to Yorktown in Delaware County.