Oakesdale agrees to pay half of trestle removal cost

Oakesdale Town Council has agreed to split the cost of removing a former rail trestle which was taken out last fall by Whitman County Public Works in order to clear an obstruction causing ice jams on McCoy Creek.

A follow-up project to clear the channel of grass and other obstructions could happen later this year.

County Commissioner Art Swannack visited an Oakesdale town council meeting Dec. 18 to ask that the town pay $4,350 – half of the cost of removing the trestle.

The work was paid for out of the county general funds.

“We didn’t have a benefit in this per se because it was not affecting...