New Albany has two weeks to comply with outstanding written discovery requests in a court case involving a low-head dam. Floyd Superior Court 3 Judge Maria Granger also gave the city until the end of June to make Mayor Jeff Gahan available for deposition.

Granger denied a motion this week for default judgement filed on behalf of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office took legal action against New Albany last August, after the mayor had rocks placed at the dam to stop the hydraulic roller effect below it. The work came two months after 14-year-old A.J. Edwards Jr. drowned there, and several years into court battles around the fate of the structure.

Officials with Indiana DNR said Gahan didn’t have proper permitting for work at the Providence Mi

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