(Spirit Lake)– Maintenance and improvements to a drainage system in the Lake Park area were the topics of public hearings at Tuesday’s Dickinson county board of supervisors meeting.
The first was on plans to clean out a mile and three-quarters of the Drainage District Six open ditch just east of Lake Park. The project will be paid through assessments to landowners in the district, which includes some residents in the city of Lake Park.
A bidletting followed the hearing. The supervisors awarded the low bid of 25,614-dollars from Reutzel Excavating of Burt, Iowa. It came in well below the engineer’s estimate of just under 37-thousand dollars.
The other hearing pertained to proposed improvements to a couple of branches to Drainage District Six. The supervisors reviewed four possible options in an engineer’s report.
After considerable discussion and public comment, they opted go with an option to build a wetland on some neighboring farmland, pending the landowner signs off on the plans, which she indicated she would do at Tuesday’s meeting.
The cost of that option is considerably less than the other three and has the backing of the city of Lake Park.
