(Spirit Lake)– Improvements could be in store for a county drainage system in the Montgomery area.
The Dickinson county board of supervisors Tuesday reviewed an engineer’s report on possible improvements that could be made to Drainage District 18. The report is the result of a petition the county received from some landowners requesting something be done about poor drainage in that area.
The report by the Jacobson/Westergard Engineering Firm outlines three possible options: one calls for the construction of a detention pond at a cost of 637-thousand dollars; another would result in an all new drainage system with larger tile at an estimated cost of between a million and 1.2 million dollars; and a third and least expensive option would result in the replacement of tile that’s the most drastically undersized at a cost of 196-thousand dollars. Some concern was expressed over that option though as the larger new tile would empty into smaller, older tile…causing a restriction that would cause even more problems for downstream landowners.
The supervisors Tuesday set December 2nd at 10:30 a.m. as the date and time for a public hearing on the engineer’s report. If 50 percent of the landowners owning 70 percent or more of the land in the district oppose any improvements being made, the project will be scrapped.
