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Plan of January 2026 · commission minutes, May 28, 2026 · sweep of November 11, 2026
The state of the fight: Baugo Bay — the township water the Ferrettie/Baugo Creek park complex fronts, its entrance gate on the town's ground (the Parks leg's boundary work) — is silting in, and the campaign to save it has a plan. The Sediment Removal Plan, prepared by Everclear Aquatic Management for Save Baugo Bay, Inc. in January 2026 under the Department of Natural Resources' LARE guidance, lays out five removal sites, roughly 94,000 cubic yards of sediment, in three phases; it was put to the public at Osceola Town Hall on December 5, 2025 and January 17, 2026, with the Town of Osceola a named participant in the effort. On May 28, 2026 the St. Joseph River Basin Commission drafted a letter of support — offering a watershed-level perspective and help reaching watershed contacts, and expressly not endorsing any specific dredging plan; the distinction is the Commission's own and prints whole. The South Bend press's Redress column (May 29, 2026, updated July 27, 2026) carries the campaign's matching-grant work and the DNR constraint that bounds it: established islands in the bay cannot be removed — "We can only fight to save what remains," in board member Jacob Jenkins's words. As of the search: the plan is submitted, the support is qualified, the money is being raised, and no dredge is in the water in any source reached. The plan's permit and funding state was not retrieved and is banked as a named gap (GAP-O9-3) rather than assumed. The Parks leg owns the fight whole; the Stories leg keeps the bay's memory shelf; this article is the closing chapter's snapshot of the one development story the town is actively living.
Sources
- Sediment Removal Plan for Baugo Bay, Everclear Aquatic Management for Save Baugo Bay, Inc., January 2026 — the five sites, the yardage, the phases, the Town Hall meetings.
- St. Joseph River Basin Commission, minutes, May 28, 2026 — the qualified letter of support.
- Redress column, South Bend press, May 29, 2026 (updated July 27, 2026) — the campaign, the grants, the DNR constraint.
- This build's Parks leg — the bay, the boundary, and the fight, whole.