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Landowner protests Fortieth Road culvert work; road director says culvert replaced after failure and crews will adjust flows
Summary
A landowner told commissioners county culvert work routed water onto her field without notification; Road & Bridge staff said the county replaced a failed concrete culvert and will revise the alignment and ditching to limit field flooding.
Resident Carol Smith told the Neosho County Board of Commissioners on June 3 that crews replaced a culvert under Fortieth Road and that the work has created standing water and a new flow across her pasture. She said she had not been contacted before the work and complained that rock and grading placed near her gate have left standing water and damaged hay.
Smith said she was first notified on May 26 that her fence was down. She said crews installed a new culvert that she believes has altered the watercourse and resulted in one bale of hay lost to saturation. “I am not gonna have a waterway going through my field,” she told commissioners, and said she would…
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