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Hospital ‘pond’ lawsuit is settled, Bridgeport Township to redo culvert

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By Ted Pennekamp

 

A lawsuit filed on Feb. 21, 2019, by Crossing Rivers Health against the town of Bridgeport and nine other defendants regarding a growing “pond” on the hospital’s property has been settled.

Judge Craig Day dismissed the case on March 2, 2020.

Crossing Rivers Health Chief Financial Officer Christopher Brophy said an agreement has been reached and the town of Bridgeport will be renovating a culvert on Vineyard Road so as to help divert water away from the hospital’s property.

“We will be working with the township and they will be bidding a remediation of the box culvert,” said Brophy. “This is expected to take place in the spring.”

At its September 2019 meeting, the Bridgeport Town Board approved of negotiating and entering into a settlement agreement with Crossing Rivers Health and Rural Mutual Insurance Company with the town contributing up to $30,000 toward the settlement. Negotiations had been ongoing since then.

Crossing Rivers Health claimed in the lawsuit that the defendants were responsible for the continued growth of the pond because of the 2016 Vineyard Road Project, which the hospital claims is the reason rain water is diverted to their property, rather than to other locations.

The lawsuit had alleged that the road improvement project left about half of the 105-acre Crossing Rivers Health property permanently underwater due to changes in drainage, and as a result, the property’s value has gone down.

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