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The river as sewer: no combined system, no decree, no permit of record reached

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No federal case, no consent decree, and no combined system stands on this ground in any carrier reached — and the contrast with the floor city is the finding. South Bend's rivers leg carries a federal combined-sewer decree course; the checklist asks whether any equivalent exists here. The tests run: no combined sewer system is named for Lakeville in any carrier reached — a town of 879 whose banked utility record is wells, a tower, and small-system works has no combined-system fact to print; no IDEM discharge-permit proceeding, enforcement action, or federal decree naming the Town of Lakeville or a Union Township discharger into the Yellow River headwaters was found in the web record reached; and the one documented water-quality fact the build holds runs the other way — the township's lakes listed for high phosphorus in the 2018 Headwaters Yellow River Watershed management plan (approved by IDEM and EPA in May 2018), a nonpoint-source listing, not a point-source permit case. The sewer article therefore prints as a tested negative at reached strength: the river here was never made a sewer by system or decree in any record. Residue: IDEM's permit database queried by facility name, and the town utility's own records, are the row's named settlers and were not read entire; a permit that exists only inside those systems would not have surfaced, and the negative is printed at exactly that limit.

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Source: The river as sewer: no combined system, no decree, no permit of record reached, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/rivers/river-as-sewer-no-combined-system-no-decree-no/