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Liberty County resident tells commissioners ditches are overflowing, requests creek cleanup and easement work
Summary
A Chesterwood Estates resident told the Commissioners Court that county ditches and a nearby creek are overflowing onto his property, damaging trees and creating flood-insurance concerns; no formal county action was recorded during the public comment period.
Kurt Edwards, a Chesterwood Estates resident in Precinct 3, told the Liberty County Commissioners Court that standing water has encroached on his yard and that county drainage ditches near his home are not being maintained.
Edwards said his house is "actually 50 feet from the road and now it's got to where it's up to the sidewalk and coming into my house 5 feet away," and described water backing into his ditches and woods after recent work that cleared one neighbor's ditch but left others unaddressed. He said the flow appears to originate…
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