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Board approves Sand Hill ditch redetermination process, hires H2O Viewers for Polk County ditches

2671634 · March 18, 2025
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Summary

Polk County agreed to proceed with a redetermination of benefits for ditches within the Sand Hill River Watershed District and voted to retain H2O Viewers to perform viewer work for Polk County ditches; commissioners discussed a possible phased, countywide program to update ditch benefits.

Polk County commissioners voted to proceed with a redetermination of ditch benefits for systems within the Sand Hill River Watershed District and accepted staff recommendations to hire H2O Viewers (H2O Viewers, LLC) to conduct the viewer work for county ditches related to that project.

Brian Murphy of H2O Viewers presented maps and explained the proposed scope: the initial group (the Sand Hill group) covers the ditches inside the Sand Hill watershed boundary plus one Polk County ditch that drains to the Wild Rice watershed. Murphy said doing those contiguous systems at once improves efficiency and avoids duplicate costs because…

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