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Committee tables $1.5 million request to rebuild Custer West Dam amid questions over local responsibility
Summary
Lawmakers voted to table House Bill 12-37, a $1,500,000 appropriation request for reconstruction of the breached West Dam in Custer. Proponents cited flood mitigation, fire suppression and tourism protection; the state budget office argued the structure is a municipal responsibility and urged pursuit of federal grants first.
Proponents of House Bill 12-37 asked the Joint Appropriations Committee for $1,500,000 in state funds to reconstruct West Dam in Custer, a breached municipal dam designated as high-hazard in state and national inventories. The committee voted to table the bill.
Leanne McCourter, representing the Custer Community Development Foundation and speaking on behalf of the city and mayor, traced the dam’s failure to 2012 and described a phased, multi-year local effort to rebuild. McCourter said the community had spent about $250,000 to initiate the project and budgeted $1,000,000 in local…
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