The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON—The Flood Control Zone District (FCZD) board of supervisors and the manager, Charles Eaton, are meeting before the regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on the first Monday of the month.

City of Dayton Mayor Zac Weatherford came before the FCZD administrators on Mar. 1 to let them know about the City’s desire to take over the permitting process from the county for sediment removal from the Touchet River.

Weatherford’s reasons were twofold; to expedite the process and complete a more thorough removal of the sediment from city boundary to city boundary.

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