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County approves funding for levee repairs

By Greg Bebermeyer

08/26/2020

(KNZA)--The Doniphan County Commission has approved funding to assist the Elwood Gladden Drainage District with levee repair costs.

According to the unofficial meeting minutes, Attorney Joel Euler met with the Commission Monday on behalf of the drainage district to ask that the county designate $200,000 a year in sales tax proceeds for a five-year period, beginning in 2021, to help offset the drainage district's $3 million required payment for levee repairs.

The project is to include under seepage berm repair, raising the height of the levee structure and acquisition of permanent easements from adjoining landowners.

Kansas is responsible for $33 million of the $77 million federal project.

Euler said use of the sales tax funds would be an allowable expense as a capital improvement project to county owned property in order to protect the county's tax base from potential flood risks.

The Commission voted unanimously to approve the funding request.

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