COLUMBIA — Voters will decide Tuesday whether to put $3,993,000 toward road culverts, bridge repairs and work on the Columbia Lake spillway. Voting runs from noon to 8 p.m. November 17 at Yeomans Hall, 323 Route 87.
The ballot asks voters to approve the spending and authorize up to $1,693,000 in town bonds and notes to help pay for it. The Town Clerk has the full resolution and is handling absentee ballots.
At the November 5 special town meeting, Town Administrator Mark Walter said the culverts on Pine Street and Thompson Hill Road were too small and had nearly failed in two major storms. The town plans to install larger culverts that can handle more water and debris.
The Village Hill Road bridge work would address deteriorating concrete along the sides. Walter said Lebanon would pay 60 percent of that project’s cost and Columbia 40 percent. At Columbia Lake, the work would fill voids beneath the spillway and modify its head. Walter said the spillway work still needed state dam-safety approval before bidding.