BOCC backs out of railroad property purchase
Shoshone County Courthouse
Photo by JOSH McDONALD
WALLACE –– Earlier this week, the Shoshone Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) made the decision to not purchase a 49-acre parcel of land from the Union Pacific Railroad (UPR).
The property, located to the west of Spunstrand Inc., had been discussed as the proposed site of a new jail and public safety building for the past four years – but additional information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effectively made the commissioners’ mind up for them.
According to Dan Martinsen, with the county’s planning department, the verbal opinion provided to the county by the EPA indicated that a jail would likely violate the terms of the current environmental covenant as it pertains to residential use on the property.
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