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Wallsburg council debates responsibility for filled ditches, seeks state help to fix drainage
Summary
Council members and residents discussed multiple drainage trouble spots, property encroachments on a 66-foot town right of way, and a planned meeting with the state Department of Water Quality to pursue grant funding for engineering and repairs.
Wallsburg Town Council members and residents spent the bulk of the Sept. 5 meeting on an extended discussion about stormwater, filled ditches and who must maintain the town road right of way.
The discussion centered on four problem areas where residents reported repeated flooding, plugged culverts and soil or fill that has redirected runoff onto neighboring properties. Council members said the town’s road right of way is 66 feet and that encroachments — lawns, rock walls or fences sited in that easement — complicate repair and drainage…
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