A plan, not a pause
A comprehensive dredging plan with a timeline, a funding strategy, and environmental safeguards.
Cedar Lake, Indiana · 46303
Save the lake.
Let’s not let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip away.
The dredge already started. The dewatering facility is built. Two million dollars from the Monsanto settlement is sitting in a decision. Don’t let that window close.
savecedarlake.org
Next public meeting
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
6:30 p.m. Utility Board, then Town Council
Town Hall, 7408 Constitution Avenue. Doors open to the public.
One message
Finish the dredge. Put a date on it.
Use what’s already here
The sediment facility south of town, and the $2 million settlement the town received for this lake.
Price the waiting
A public accounting of costs, benefits, and what it costs to do nothing to the water, the boats, and the shoreline.
What’s on the record
The window is already open.
- In April 2024 the Town Council halted dredging and moved that money into the wastewater fund.
- Phase one had started around 2023, including a sediment dewatering facility south of town. The town engineer reported in December 2025 that dewatering was still underway.
- The town received $2 million from the Monsanto class-action settlement, applied for to remove more sediment and to help fund alum treatment. As of that December report, council was still deciding how to use it.
- On August 5, 2025, residents pressed the council to resume. Alum was described as a treatment that might last 5 to 15 years — not a substitute for finishing the dredge.
Sources: South Lake County Sun, Aug. 12 and Aug. 19, 2025; Christopher B. Burke Engineering town engineer report, Dec. 9, 2025, in the Dec. 16 council packet; Town of Cedar Lake meeting calendar.
Let’s not let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip away.
The count
Add your voice. Keep your name.
This roll is a public headcount, not a sworn petition. We store an anonymous mark and the kind of stake you have in the lake. No name, no email, no address. Neighbors sign at savecedarlake.org. Put your name on the letter, or on the paper sheet, and carry those to Town Hall.
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First goal 250
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- On the lake2
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- Boat, fish, or work0
The letter
To the Cedar Lake Town Council, the Clerk-Treasurer, Lake County Commissioners, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources: A Cedar Lake resident urges you to preserve the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dredge Cedar Lake. Sediment buildup threatens water quality, recreation, property values, and the lake's long-term health. Dredging is not optional maintenance. It is the investment that decides whether this lake thrives for the next century or slowly degrades. The town already started this work, built a sediment dewatering facility south of town, and received $2 million from the Monsanto settlement for the lake. Council halted dredging in April 2024. As of the town engineer's December 2025 report, how to use that settlement was still undecided. Please: 1. Formally commit to a comprehensive dredging plan with a timeline, a funding strategy, and environmental safeguards. 2. Pursue the required permits without delay, and report progress in public. 3. Give residents a clear accounting of costs, benefits, and the cost of doing nothing. Let's not let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip away. Neighbors can sign at savecedarlake.org. A Cedar Lake resident Cedar Lake, Indiana 46303
That opens your mail app with the seven council members and Clerk-Treasurer Jennifer Sandberg ([email protected]) on blind copy. Addresses are the public ones on cedarlakein.gov.
- Robert H. Carnahan · Ward 1
- Julie Rivera · Ward 2
- Nick Recupito · Ward 3
- Chuck Becker · Ward 4
- Greg Parker · Ward 5
- Mary Joan Dickson · At large
- Richard Thiel · At large
Same line, three formats
Billboard, poster, and a sheet for the neighbors.
Neighbors sign at savecedarlake.org. Print the piece in front of you. The billboard is the wide one. The poster fits a yard or a shop window. The sign sheet is where real names go — this site never stores them.
Cedar Lake, Indiana
Save the lake.
Let’s not let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip away.
savecedarlake.org
Sixty seconds
Read this. Or hand it to an avatar.
Same words as the billboard and the hero. Paste them into HeyGen, or just say them at the microphone on October 20. About one minute, read steadily.
Cedar Lake is at a crossroads. For decades, sediment has been quietly filling our lake. It clouds the water. It crowds the shallows. It drags on recreation and on the value of every property that faces it. Dredging is the move that reverses that. Not a patch. A reset. We already started. The town built a sediment dewatering facility. It received two million dollars from the Monsanto settlement for this lake. Then, in 2024, the dredge stopped, and that money is still waiting on a decision. This window will not stay open. Permits, funding, and political will all expire. Town Council meets at Town Hall on Constitution Avenue. Show up. Sign at savecedarlake.org. Tell them: save the lake. Finish the dredge. Because once-in-a-lifetime means exactly that.