Engineers' letter frames town limits on ditching and drainage responsibility
The chair read a letter from state engineers explaining common-law drainage principles, the 25-foot town right-of-way, special-purpose easements, and the possibility of easement by prescription after long continuous use; the board said those constraints limit what the town can do on private culverts.
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At the start of the June 24 meeting, Chair (speaker 2) read a letter prepared by state engineers (identified in the meeting as Jason Savini and Eric Pope) that summarized legal and practical constraints on how the town may manage drainage tied to the highway right-of-way.
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