Indiana Department of Natural Resources v. Town of Syracuse

OPINION

STATON, Judge.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”) appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of the town of Syracuse, Matt Vigneault, as Manager of the town of Syracuse, Jeanette Causey and Earl Grove (collectively the “town”). The DNR raises three issues for our review, but we find dispositive the issue of whether seasonally anchoring augered pier posts into a lake bed constitutes alteration of the lake bed within the meaning of The Lake Preservation Act. 1 We answer the issue in the negative and affirm.

This case arises out of the placement of two piers on Syracuse…