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Resident urges county to test ‘beaver deceiver’ to prevent repeated culvert blockages
Summary
A resident asked the Tompkins County Facilities and Infrastructure Committee to consider a commercially produced culvert-protection device after repeated beaver-related blockages; highway staff described current maintenance practice and tradeoffs and said they will follow up.
Ashley Miller, a resident of 126 Sears Street, told the Tompkins County Facilities and Infrastructure Committee on July 17 that a persistent beaver colony has repeatedly blocked a culvert under Iredell Road and asked why the county keeps sending crews to clear the blockage instead of testing a commercially produced ‘‘beaver deceiver’’ designed to prevent damming at culverts. Miller said she has for two years sent the highway department a link to a Vermont-made device she described as a one-time solution, and asked whether the county had evaluated the device’s cost-effectiveness compared with repeatedly…
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