Mansfield City Council is set to vote next month for a contract for the design of the North Lake Park Dry Dam, which the actual name is the “Touby Run Flood Hazard Mitigation Project”. Councilman Cliff Mears says a project of this size normally takes 18 to 24 months to design and then needs to be approved by the EPA. The cost for the design could be around $1.2 to 1.5 million, with the total cost around of the project being $ 17 - 19 million.Council is set to vote on the contract design on March 19
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. Building the dry dam in North Lake Park will help reduce flooding in the city.