Ossian firm hired to do Lake Meyer project

A bid from Doug Egland Tiling of Ossian has been accepted for a project to limit sediment and nutrients flowing into Lake Meyer.

The $109,997.20 bid from Egland Tiling was one of five bids submitted for the Lake Meyer Wetland and Grade Stabilization Project.  The project calls for creating a spillway at the head of Lake Meyer.  A new wetland with a 5-acre pool will act as a sponge, preventing an estimated 80 percent of sediment from reaching the lake.

The Lake Meyer project is part of an overall project involving the Turkey River Watershed, including terraces, sediment basins and filter strips.  Those improvements upriver from Lake Meyer are expected to slow down and reduce rainwater runoff and sediment before it gets to the lake.  Lake Meyer was built in 1968.  Originally it was a 37-acre lake, but in the past 40 years the lake has shrunk to 32 acres because of sediment coming from the surrounding watershed.