Board looks at flood options (1/12/03)

A request for help with a persistent flooding problem east of Dunkirk was met with several possible solutions — none of them immediate.

Dru Hall, who lives on county road 1000 West just south of county road 400 South in the Baker Bantz Watershed, has worked with county surveyor Brad Daniels for several years to alleviate flooding on his property — especially to the east of his home.

Hall and Daniels discussed the problem this morning with Jay County Commissioners, who met as the county drainage board following an executive session in which they interviewed four candidates for county highway superintendent.

Hall’s home, which is on the east side of county road 1000 West in Richland Township, is located near two county tiles — the Ackerman and the Collins. Those tiles run to the west, eventually emptying into the Baker Ditch at county road 400 South about three-fourths of a mile west of county road 1000 West.

Possible solutions, Daniels said, include beginning at the west and bringing a larger tile back to the east, or running a new line from Hall’s property to the Collins, which drains more quickly because it has more fall.

Commissioners Mike Leonhard, Gary Theurer and Milo Miller Jr. asked Daniels to work with Hall to find the best solution.

Also this morning, the drainage board agreed to use county maintenance funds to replace a tile in the Glen Miller Watershed in section 32 of Greene Township.

George Homan, who owns a farm just south of where the Oliver P. Martin Tile ends, asked the county to pay for the tile for 55 percent of the approximately 1,850-foot project. Homan will contract for the work to be done, and plans to upgrade to an 18-inch tile.

The tile runs from the intersection of county road 200 South and Como Road (Green Post Office) and runs to the south and west.

The county’s share in the project will be about $4,400.[[In-content Ad]]