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Drainage board will investigate private culverts restricting flow into lake channel; staff authorized to get cost estimates
Summary
Property owner Robert Gu asked the board to address sedimentation and shallow canals caused by two metal culverts that outlet into a channel near his Lake of the Woods property. The board voted to have staff investigate capping or removing the culverts and to provide cost options.
Robert Gu told the Marshall County Drainage Board his canal at Lake of the Woods has filled with sediment and vegetation, leaving only inches of depth in places. Staff presented photos showing two metal outlet pipes (one about 24 inches and one about 48 inches) that discharge from the Embacoontz/Amacoontz Ditch into the lake-side channel adjacent to Gu’s property.
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