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Huron County adopts 2025 ditch maintenance assessments; total assessments $168,090.82
Summary
The board certified 2025 maintenance assessments for Huron County and multiple joint ditches; the Huron Soil & Water Conservation District reported total assessments of $168,090.82 and said in-house spraying costs about $200 per mile versus $500 contracted.
The Huron County Board of Commissioners adopted the 2025 ditch maintenance assessments for Huron County and several multi-county joint ditches on Tuesday, following recommendations from the Huron Soil and Water Conservation District.
At the Huron-Crawford joint ditch meeting the Joint Board approved assessment percentages for named ditches to be certified to county auditors for collection on the 2025 property tax rolls. Larry Schmidt moved the joint-board resolution; commissioners from both counties recorded ayes. At the Huron-Seneca joint ditch meeting the board likewise approved assessments for Setchel-Turner, Stacklin-Stockmaster and Megginson Creek ditches.
Huron County Ditch Maintenance Supervisor Aaron Robinson reported that the total assessments across all counties are $168,090.82. Robinson explained the district performs some in-house work: short "dipping" jobs with the district backhoe are done internally, but longer sections (about 600 feet or more) are contracted out. He said the district sprays every mile of ditches and that, when contracted out, spraying cost roughly $500 per mile; doing it in-house has reduced that to a little over $200 per mile and has been done since 2015/2016.
The board approved certification of the assessments to the Huron County Auditor so the amounts can be collected via property tax in 2025. The resolutions state the assessments and the related proceedings were conducted in meetings open to the public in compliance with Ohio law.
