Scott County meeting approves drainage permit for Mir Storage

Nathan Grimes, with Renaissance Design Build, asked Scott County officials to approve a drainage permit for Mir Storage, saying engineers accepted the plan and "everything goes to an existing retention pond on site." Grimes provided the company address as 117 South Indiana Avenue, Sersburg, Indiana, and said the project’s drainage would be contained by the existing pond and creek.

The question-and-answer period focused on whether the pond would be filled and whether the site would be paved or left gravel. A committee member asked explicitly, "you're not going to fill in the pond, right?" Grimes replied the pond and creek "are staying the way it is" and confirmed that surfaces would slope back to the pond.

The board voted on a motion to approve the permit after Grimes said a third‑party engineer’s review accepted the submission. The motion was seconded and approved by voice vote; the transcript records the affirmative "I" but does not provide a roll‑call tally or individual vote breakdown.

Why it matters: drainage permits determine how new impervious surfaces manage stormwater and can affect local flood risk and downstream water quality. With the engineer’s acceptance and the applicant’s assurance that the retention pond will remain, the board moved forward without further conditions.

The board did not record a numeric vote count in the transcript. The applicant thanked the board after the approval.