County
August 29, 2024

County finalizes plans for logjam project

 

By Michael Williamson, Richwood Gazette

Letters to affected property owners have been sent out as Union County finalizes plans for the second public hearing for the Mill Creek logjam next month.

County officials are preparing for the Sept. 10 meeting, Engineer Jeff Stauch said, as residents should be seeing the documents come through the mail with assessment information listed. Amounts were one of the final pieces of the puzzle before the county could get the hearing scheduled.

“We physically met with (a contractor) late last week to talk about just the scope of the job, we talked about what our approach is with our notes, showed them a plan sheet or two and got a feel for, ‘is there something…

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