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Blue Earth County approves repair plans, select ASI approach and financing resolutions for multiple ditches
Summary
The county heard engineer reports for County Ditches 88, 93 and Judicial Ditch 32, approved a field-verify/prioritize approach to water-quality side-inlet measures (option 3), and passed resolutions enabling potential bonding for repairs and agreed project scopes and estimated landowner costs.
The Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 17 conducted a series of repair hearings for county drainage systems and voted to approve repair reports and financing steps for multiple ditches.
County Ditch 88: ISG engineers presented an inspection-based repair report describing sediment deposition, washouts and culvert deterioration across the roughly 5,700-acre watershed. The engineers proposed cleaning and targeted repairs, tree removal and 13 alternative side-inlets (ASIs) and seven ASIROs to reduce sediment and phosphorus loading; the total project estimate was $1,072,650 with road authority…
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