Twenty-one Indianapolis City-County councilors sent a letter Thursday warning that a major industrial development in Lebanon poses serious environmental risks to Eagle Creek Park — one of the city’s most visited natural assets.
The LEAP district — short for Limitless Exploration/Advanced Pace — is a roughly 9,000-acre industrial park being developed in Lebanon along Interstate 65. It’s tenants include Eli Lilly manufacturing facilities and a Meta data center campus.
At the center of the dispute is a deal for Citizens Energy Group, Indianapolis’s public water utility to supply up to 25 million gallons of water per day from Indianapolis sources — including Eagle Creek Reservoir — to Lebanon Utilities by 2031. Under current plans, Lebanon Utilities would then discharge treated industrial wastewater from the LEAP site through a pipeline back into Eagle Creek Reservoir…