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Select board imposes short moratorium on drainage work on class‑6 roads after unauthorized machinery use
Summary
Following concerns about machine work at a culvert and beaver deceiver on a class‑6 road, the board voted 4–1 to bar private drainage work on town class‑6 roads pending a policy review; emergency DPW repairs were exempted.
The Bow Select Board on Aug. 12 enacted a temporary moratorium — approved 4–1 — that prevents private parties from performing drainage work on town class‑6 (unmaintained) roads without board approval. The motion included an explicit exception allowing Bow Public Works to perform emergency drainage repairs.
The action followed an extended discussion about an incident in which machinery was used to alter a culvert and an older concrete pipe near a beaver deceiver. Tim Sweeney, Bow’s public‑works director,…
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