Montgomery County could be facing a fight with a Rural Water District.
At this week's Montgomery County Commission meeting, Public Works Director Jim Wright told commissioners that the county is ready to begin work on Buckeye Street in Coffeyville south of the railroad tracks, but that Rural Water District #2C is dragging their feet on their part of the process.
Wright says the Water District only located their lines two weeks ago, which has pushed the start date of the project back from June 1st to July 1st. Since the project is funded by grant money, if it is not completed by a certain date, the county will lose the funding. Commissioner Robert Bever says there must be some course of action the county can take.
Commissioners decided that they needed to check what legal recourse they would have to convince the water district to move their lines.
In other business, commissioners also approved a solid waste plan from Matt Debo and heard about seized vehicles from Sheriff Ron Wade.
