St. Joseph County Drainage Board

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Farmers worry Amazon's next site dewatering will flood ditch

Jeff Parrott

The St. Joseph County Drainage Board on Tuesday indefinitely tabled a request from Amazon to drain 640 acres to build the foundation for their next set of data shells. Farmers worry that the Niezpodziany Ditch and its receiving river, the Kankakee, can't handle the 35 million gallons of water a day that would be discharged from the dewatering.