COLUMBIA — Help is hard to find for people who can't afford to upgrade earthen dams on their property, mostly because of the legal liability agencies take on when funding dam repairs.
Conducting necessary repairs on outdated and unmaintained dams can be costly, and the responsibility for funding the maintenance falls
on the property owners.
Keeping up earthen dams can be costly for owners
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | 7:52 p.m. CST;
updated 11:02 p.m. CST, Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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