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Mitigation officer seeks engineering details before signing city wastewater floodplain plan; DEQ monitoring diesel spill
Summary
Mary, Daniels County mitigation officer, said the city sent a map and letter seeking floodplain administrator sign‑off for a wastewater sprinkler improvement; she will contact the project's engineer before signing. Separately, DEQ is monitoring an ongoing diesel spill near the fairgrounds with an update scheduled Feb. 28.
Mary, who identified herself at the meeting as Daniels County mitigation officer, told commissioners she had received a letter from the city asking the county floodplain administrator to sign off on proposed wastewater system improvements. She said Great West Engineering is handling the project but that she had not yet received complete materials from the engineer and would contact him before deciding whether to sign.
"Apparently this system needs to be evaluated by the flood plane administrator and signed off on," Mary said, and she explained she wanted to review the plan before agreeing that the county's floodplain responsibilities were satisfied. She raised practical questions about whether signing would place specific liabilities on the county and said she would only sign after she was comfortable with the engineering answers.
Mary also reported an ongoing diesel spill near the fairgrounds. She said the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) had been involved, installed monitoring wells, and was pumping and testing soil and groundwater. An update to the county was scheduled for Feb. 28. County staff and residents described smells and initial surface cleanup activity; Mary and Shane said remediation could be costly — estimates discussed ranged from roughly $500,000 to $750,000 for tank replacement and associated cleanup work, and insurance coverage was described as unlikely.
Next steps: Mary will seek further information from the project's engineer on the wastewater plan before signing; DEQ monitoring will continue and the county expects a formal update on remediation progress in February.
