FINDLAY, Ohio -- Some northwest Ohio farmers are questioning a proposal to create a conservancy district that would oversee flood-control efforts along the Blanchard River. The district could raise money and take land through eminent domain to help control the river with walls and levees. But area farmers say they shouldn't have to help fund those projects because their land might be at risk.
Hancock County Farmer Cecil Boes says they also worry about how their land would be used and whether their interests would be represented on the appointed three-person oversight board. A private group petitioning for the district says more than three-fourths of the land in the Blanchard Valley watershed belongs to farmers in six counties.
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