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After volunteer culvert work, Bow board limits drainage actions on Class 6 roads, directs policy rewrite
Summary
DPW director Tim Sweeney reported an unauthorized culvert disturbance while on vacation and the board voted 4–1 to impose a temporary moratorium on drainage work on town property and Class 6 roads (except DPW emergency activities) until staff returns with a policy at the Sept. 9 meeting.
Tim Sweeney, Bow’s public works director, told the Select Board on Aug. 12 that the public works department did not authorize machinery for recent culvert work and that a volunteer’s actions disturbed a lower concrete pipe and a protected beaver deceiver.
Sweeney described the department’s standard approach: attempt hand maintenance at least three times, use beaver deceivers (a screened box blocking debris while allowing flow) and avoid mechanical excavation in flowing water…
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