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La Porte County board orders repair, inspection and clean-up after repeated washouts at Eckert Ditch control structure
Summary
An emergency hearing addressed a repeatedly failing control structure on the Eckert Ditch after downstream property owners complained of silt and dumping; the board authorized repairs, inspection by staff, removal/hauling of spoils from the easement and reseeding if necessary, and required the structure owner to obtain board approval before future changes.
The La Porte County Drainage Board held an emergency hearing after a control structure on the Eckert Ditch washed out again, prompting competing claims from adjacent landowners and a multi-point response from the board.
Greg Warner and Otto Warner, owners of land adjacent to the structure, said the control structure had been approved in 2010 but that neighbors had not been notified; they complained that attempts to plug the washed structure with dumped dirt were creating downstream silt and harming adjacent farms. Warner asked the board to re-engineer or reinstall the structure because prior repairs had not held.
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