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Byers resident urges Pratt County to press city on drainage, roads and mosquito control
Summary
Amelia Ballantine, a Byers resident, told the Pratt County Commission the town is suffering from persistent standing water, impassable streets and inconsistent mosquito abatement and asked the county to intervene.
Amelia Ballantine, a Byers resident, told the Pratt County Commission the town is suffering from persistent standing water, impassable streets and inconsistent mosquito abatement and asked the county to intervene.
Ballantine said culverts and ditches have been filled in, a road grader has not been repaired, streets have large potholes, and the town does not reliably spray for mosquitoes. “This town was not that way when I moved here 25 years ago. We need help,” she said.
The commission members told Ballantine that Byers is its own taxing entity and that the county…
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