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Lucas County approves petitioning engineer to advance Big Coulee Ditch improvement design
Summary
The Lucas County Board of Commissioners found the Big Coulee Ditch project meets statutory requirements to proceed with design and directed the county engineer to survey and prepare plans; construction will be funded by an H2Ohio grant of $913,000 and future maintenance assessments could fall to adjoining property owners.
The Lucas County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to find that the Big Coulee Ditch improvement petition meets the requirements to proceed with design and to direct the county engineer to conduct surveys, prepare plans, maps and profiles, and calculate estimated assessments for the project. The petition is listed as Petition No. 1095 from Jerusalem Township.
The vote follows a first hearing at which County Engineer Panuski described the project as a roughly 1.2-mile riparian renovation of Big Coulee Ditch intended to stabilize banks and reduce the frequency and extent of water backing up onto adjacent lands. Panuski told commissioners the construction phase will be paid by an H2Ohio grant totaling $913,000; the county published a legal notice in the Toledo…
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