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Summer second wettest on record…and counting

Thursday, August 19, 2010
SOURCE:  Randy M. Cauthron, Managing Editor, www.spencerdailyreporter.com
The three summer months of June, July and August in 2010 moved into the classification as the second wettest summer on record Tuesday when the numbers surpassed the 1902 three-month total of 22.57 inches. Across the state rain totals average 22.6 inches for the summer so [...]

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July Goes On Record Books As One Of The Wettest

Tuesday, August 03, 2010
(Spirit Lake)– This past July will go on the record books as being one of the wettest ever in the Iowa Great Lakes.
According to records compiled here at the KUOO studios, 7.53 inches of rain fell in July. That compares with 6.21 inches in July of 1993, which saw severe flooding in [...]

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Hopes To Get Lower Gar Project Done This Fall May Be Waning

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

(Spirit Lake)– Prospects of getting improvements made at the Lower Gar Outlet yet this fall aren’t as bright now as they were earlier based on information Dickinson County Engineer Dan Eckert had Tuesday for the board of supervisors.
Eckert reported the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just now put together an agreement with [...]

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The ‘ayes’ have it: Combined session between council, supervisors results in Lower Gar agreement

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Andrea Kemp - Staff Writer
Unanimous roll call votes from both the board of supervisors and the Milford City Council may have finally paved the way for an agreement between the two entities for construction of two box culverts at 230th Ave., the site of the Lower Gar Outlet.
The agreement came as the result [...]

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Dickinson Co. Supervisors, Milford City Council Ink Agreement On Lower Gar In Special Joint Session

Friday, April 30, 2010
(Milford)– After years of controversy, the way has been cleared for alterations to be made to the Lower Gar Outlet.
Meeting in a special joint session Thursday evening, the Milford City Council and Dickinson county board of supervisors both approved an agreement that will allow work to proceed to install two additional culverts [...]

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Dickinson Co. Supervisors Review Proposed Lower Gar Agreement

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
(Spirit Lake)– Whether or not any changes will be made anytime soon to the Lower Gar Outlet apparently comes down to a proposed agreement over what exactly will be done, who will pay for it, who will maintain it and who will be responsible in the event something happens downstream as a [...]

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Milford, county resume Lower Gar Outlet talks

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Andrea Kemp - Staff Writer – Dickinson County News
www.dickinsoncountynews.com/story/1626130.html

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Plans to breach Lower Gar placed on ‘indefinite hold’ by Army Corps

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Source:  Dickinson County News – Andrea Kemp – Staff Writer
A matter of days: Breach halt timeline
* Monday, March 15 – Joint meeting; Milford City Council/Board of Supervisors:
No agreement on Lower Gar action reached
* Tuesday, March 16 – Supervisors ask for emergency action to cut breach in road
* Wednesday, March 17 – David [...]

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