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Debate over highway culverts and watershed impacts surfaces in hearing on drainage bill
Summary
Representative Mike Brandenburg told the committee that House Bill 1201 would change how culverts intersecting state highways are handled after local officials said oversized culverts put in during a 2013 DOT project caused downstream flooding.
Representative Mike Brandenburg opened the hearing on House Bill 1201, which would amend statute related to drains that intersect roadways in the state highway system and add provisions to allow restrictor valves or other control features at culvert crossings under certain watershed conditions.
Brandenburg told the committee that a 2013 North Dakota Department of Transportation (DOT) replacement of culverts on State Highway 13 increased culvert capacity (he said the new pipes were five times larger than the originals) and has contributed to sustained high water and flooding of county and township roads and farmland downstream. Local witnesses from Sargent County, including water board members and farmers, testified that the change created…
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