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Landowner requests irrigation easement across county rail-trail; staff and commissioners favor buried pipe, not open ditch
Summary
A west-side landowner asked Weber County commissioners on July 21 for an irrigation easement across a county-owned former railroad embankment; staff recommended a buried pipe rather than an open ditch.
A west-side landowner asked Weber County commissioners on July 21 for an irrigation easement across a county-owned former railroad embankment currently used as a recreational rail-trail. County staff and commissioners said they will not support an open-channel ditch along the rail bed and instead recommended the applicant either install a buried pipe or return with a piped design and costs.
The Nut Graf: Riker Wells asked for a 10-foot irrigation easement spanning nearly 3,000 feet across the rail corridor and adjacent embankment; county staff said the rail bed27s construction materials and decomposed soils make an open channel unsuitable and pose long-term maintenance and seepage risks, and recommended a contained,…
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