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Wallsburg council presses for plan after repeated road, ditch and drainage failures
Summary
Councilmembers and residents spent the longest portion of the Sept. 5 meeting discussing recurring drainage problems, who is responsible for town right-of-way maintenance and how to qualify for state grant funds to fix failing culverts and washed-out roads.
Wallsburg Town Council members and residents spent the majority of their Sept. 5 meeting discussing recurring drainage and right-of-way problems that have left roads soft, culverts blocked or removed, and private driveways vulnerable to flooding.
The discussion centered on who is responsible for maintenance inside the town’s road right of way, where historic ditches were filled when pressurized irrigation was installed, and how to secure grants for engineering and repairs. “All the easements are in that. So that, I mean, it's the town's right of way,” Councilmember Scott Larson said during the exchange about width and maintenance responsibilities.
Residents described repeated washouts and soft spots in roads near private driveways and said culverts that once carried runoff have been pulled out or buried. “There was a ditch system that gathered up all of the…
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