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Jurupa Valley staff flag policy choices for private drainage channel on Galena Street
Summary
City staff briefed the Public Works Advisory Committee on a drainage channel that lies inside private lots in the La Bonita Tract and presented two policy options: keep private-property owners responsible for maintenance or have the city assume maintenance funded from the general fund. Staff said they will return with cost and liability analyses.
City of Jurupa Valley staff told the Public Works Advisory Committee on Jan. 9 that a 20-foot drainage channel near Galena Street is located inside private lots created when the La Bonita Tract map was filed with Riverside County in 1974, and that the county did not accept a drainage easement, leaving maintenance responsibility with property owners.
The presentation said the committee would not take action at the Jan. 9 meeting but should consider two options: continue the status quo, where property owners maintain the channel; or have the city assume maintenance, funded from the general fund. Staff said there is no other identified funding source for city maintenance and that a financial-impact analysis and liability assessment will be…
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