All the stories involving Clinton County supplying some of its water to Boone County are not true after the State of Indiana told the Clinton County Commissioners that they would get their water from another source. Commissioners President Jordan Brewer said Tuesday morning.
“They knew at some point and time they probably would have to work with Clinton County to develop them into a major project,” said Brewer, “We had monthly conversations with them. They told us what they wanted and that’s what we heard.”
The conversations began in December 2021. Brewer said the initial investment was for Clinton County to supply 5-10 million gallons of water daily for Boone County’s economic development issue. However, that all changed in September.
“In September they informed us they no longer needed water from Clinton County because it was going to be too costly to get it to Boone County,” said Brewer. “They were going to bring water in from the south as kind of the initial investment.”
Brewer added they teamed up with Frankfort Municipal Utilities and hired a legal water specialist to try and prevent this from happening again. Brewer added he doesn’t think this will be the last time Boone County will try something like this again.