Floodwood Creek Drain Consolidation Petition

On Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 7:00 pm a meeting of Board of Determination will meet at the Riga Municipal Building (7817 Riga Hwy., Riga, MI) to hear all interested persons and evidence and to determine whether the petition as circulated is necessary.

BRIEF HISTORY OF DRAIN: Last Levy was in 2004 - $17,500.00 for maintenance. Previous to this a petition was returned July 23, 1997 requesting cleaning out, relocating, widening, deepening, and straightening commencing at the outlet into the River Raisin in Section 22, Blissfield Township, thence proceeding through Sections 22, 28, 33 into the Township of Riga and proceeding through Section 4 into the Village of Riga, thence into Sections 9 and 16 for a Point of Ending at Station 197+09 in the SE 1/4 of Section 16 at terminus, Riga Township.

CURRENT ACTION: A petition was circulated by John I. Tuckerman and returned on February 2, 2005 stating "Petitioners hereby petition for the maintenance and improvement which may include the cleaning out , relocating, widening, deepening, straightening, tiling, extending, or relocating of the Floodwood Creek Drain, and tributaries thereto being the Goodrich Drain, the Riga Ditch Drain, the Goll Drain, The East Riga Drain, the Foster Drain, The Lamley & Foster Drain, and the Lamley Drain. The adding of branches and addition of lands as necessary to the Floodwood Creek Drain including but not limited to the listed tributary drains and for the consolidation of the drainage districts for the Floodwood Creek Drain, the Goodrich Drain, the Riga Ditch Drain, the Goll Drain, the East Riga Drain, the Foster Drain, the Lamley & Foster Drain, and the Lamley Drain which after consolidation will be known as the Floodwood Creek Drain and Branches Drain Drainage District, located and established wholly or partially in the Townships of Blissfield, Deerfield, Riga, and the Village of Riga, in the County of Lenawee, State of Michigan. Petitioners further request that a watershed study be performed to determine the recommended consolidation and to outline areas of the drain which are in need of maintenance and improvement. Petitioners further show that they constitute at least fifty landowners within the proposed consolidated drainage district and whose lands are liable to assessment for benefits of the proposed maintenance and improvement. Petitioners further show that the drains petitioned here for maintenance, improvement, consolidation, and study experience flooding conditions and have accumulated sediment and other obstructions and have undersized bridges, culverts, piping and that portions of some or all of the referenced drains require deepening or widening to properly manage the conveyance of stormwater within the Drainage District, and that said cleanout, relocating, widening, deepening, straightening, tiling, extending, or relocating of such drain is necessary and conducive to the public health, convenience, or welfare of the Townships of Blissfield, Deerfield, Riga, and the Village of Riga. Drainage District boundaries and apportionment of benefits to be reviewed and changed if found necessary, for these improvements by the Drain Commissioner and said improvements of such drain is necessary and conducive to the public health, convenience, or welfare of the Townships of Blissfield, Deerfield, Riga, and the Village or Riga."





Drainage District Map for Floodwood Creek Drain.




PETITION WAS SIGNED BY THE FOLLOWING:

Karlene Goetz Richard Beagle Jacqueline Salsbury
Brian Bowman Mike Denudt Douglas Vore
Larry Lipp Janet R. Goetz Susan J. Neyrinck
Robert Neyrinck Lois J. McCormick Bruce A. McCormick
Jane Tuckerman Harlan H. Behm Myrtle M. Doerfler
Robert D. Fisher Edward M. Loar Charles S. Vollers
Michelle Bender Paul Fetzer Violet Fetzer
Joyce Ammerman Bruce Goetz Dean Keller
Marlene Keller Richard Kastel Jennifer M. Loar
Dean F. Neuman II Marvin Diver Randall Kastel
Beverly S. Kastel Jacqueline A. Salsbury Colleen Salsbury
Thela J. Smith Cherie Valimont Frank Gritzmaker
Bernita Gritzmaker Leslie W. Miller Derek Rose
Arlene McMahon Patrick J. McMahon Thomas A Sell
Gloria A. Sell Kenneth M. Goetz Kenneth Lake
William Bierman Gary L. Goetz Maurice Denecker
Linda M. Bierman John Tuckerman Valeria Ostrander
Bonnie Tuckerman Kurt Keller Earl Goetz
James Goetz Elvin Iffland Dean Neuman for Blissfield Lumber Co.
James Walters Cherie Zilba William J. Bierman for William J. Bierman Living Trust
William Sell Bill Uckle William Cremean Christine Cremean Mike Denudt for Denudts Portable Welding
Don Cranor Mary Pelham James Pelham