Engineers to design plan to protect area against storm runoff

Sidney’s city council gave approval Tuesday evening to move forward with engineering designs to protect developed areas in the vicinity of Parkland Drive and Fort Sidney Road from storm water runoff.

Two members, Roger Gallaway and Wendall Gaston, were away with excused absences as council discussed final engineering plans for the area. City Manager Ed Sadler explained the plan is much smaller than originally developed by the Joint East Sidney Watershed Authority (JESWA), which called for mitigation projects in three drainages in southeast Sidney.

Those drainages, which run from developed area...