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DeKalb County board debates how to pay for dozens of ‘not-on-maintenance’ laterals left out of past drain combinations
Summary
Surveyor and board members said multiple laterals and spurs were excluded from maintenance when parent drains were combined years ago, leaving costly repairs unfunded; the board asked staff to return with maps, cost estimates and to seek a joint meeting with Noble County.
The DeKalb County Drainage Board spent the bulk of its March 19 meeting discussing long‑standing funding and maintenance gaps for laterals and spurs that were left off maintenance when larger parent drains were combined in the early 2000s.
The county surveyor told the board that when the Ed Haynes drain was combined into what is now called the Frankyard, the hearing record limited maintenance funding to the Frankyard main and explicitly excluded many tributary laterals. "When it was established as on maintenance it was put in the hearing that only the money would only go to the Ed Haynes which is combined to the Frankyard. So the money would only go to…
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