Village Board moves forward with dam removal
By Tracy Ouellette
The East Troy Village Board put into motion the restoration of the Honey Creek and the removal of the East Troy Dam at the Sept. 17 meeting.
Village engineer Tim Lynch, of Lynch and Associates, briefed the board on the next steps in the dam-removal process and restoration efforts, asking the board for some direction on what the members wanted the area to look like.
Lynch also told the board he had contacted the Department of Natural Resources to ask if it was possible to convert the dam-repair grant into a dam-removal grant. Lynch said the DNR was OK with that and he said the dam-removal grant would cover 100 percent of the removal cost on the first $400,000 of the $735,000 project and the village would be responsible for the rest. The DNR’s grant for repair would have covered about $270,000 of the project.
Lynch said the village would need to file a revised grant application, which the board approved.
The next steps for the removal process would include a floodplain study, creation of plans and specs to be submitted to the DNR and a possible public hearing if there was an objection to the removal of the dam.
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