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A survey of an 18 mile stretch of the Black Fork River, from Mickey Road in Shelby to Ohio 13, found 7,000 trees and more than 240 logjams that will need to be removed to cleanup and reduce flooding in the area. RichlandSource.com reports, Richland County Engineer Adam Gove said this information comes from a walking study done between January and March of this year, by the Richland Soil and Water Conversation. All of this is part of the joint ditch petition with the Richland and Crawford County Commissioners.
Gove will have the final cost estimate for the Commissioners to vote on, to possibly move forward on the project, by September.