Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger, Thursday, 4 January, 1962

Ogden Dunes Plans Filter Plant, Pumping Station

The first step in the construction of a $2 million filter plant and pumping station in Ogden Dunes has been recorded in the county recorder's office.

According to a deed filed Wednesday, the Gary-Hobart Water corporation of Lake county has paid approximately $45,000 for 17.5 acres of land on the west side of the north county town.

The land was recorded as being purchased from the Ogden Dunes corporation, with tax stamps indicating an approximate price of $45,000.

A spokesman for the Lake county corporation said this morning that construction on the intake pipe would begin this year at a budgeted cost of nearly $600,000. The project is expected to be completed in 1964, the spokesman said, at a total cost of $2 million.

The filtration plant and pumping station is to be constructed for the purpose of increasing the present plant capacity of 55 million gallons a day.

The company official said that the corporation believed that the demand for water in the area would exceed present facilities by 1964.

The spokesman pointed out that during the past year the water corporation averaged 22.8 million gallons a day, with gallonage running as high as 46 million gallons a day during peak summer days.

Water Not Rationed
"Water has never been rationed in Gary," the official said, "and we hope to provide facilities to prevent any necessity for rationing of water in the future."

The Gary-Hobart Water corporation provides water to all of Gary, Hobart and surrounding suburbs. Water is sold on a wholesale basis to Ogden Dunes, Griffith, and Turkey Creek utility, a subdivision utility south of Gary.

The spokesman admitted the possibility of supplying water to Portage in the near future but stressed the fact that no plans for supplying water to Portage have been made.

[continuation under:

OGDEN DUNES PLANS MAJOR WATER PROJECT

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DEMOS TO FROLIC--County Democratic Chairman Maurice Mason, seated third left, formulates plans for State of Union dance to be held at Democratic headquarters in Valparaiso Jan. 20, at 9 p. m. Members of committee meeting at Hotel Lembke Wednesday, left seated, Ralph Brownfield, Jackson township, and Tony Wrann, Ogden Dunes, co-chairmen; Mason; Mrs. Leland Hicks, county vice-chairman, and Mrs. William Strain. Standing left, Frank Frey, Leland Hicks and Malcolm Fyfe.
(V-M Staff Photo)
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