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The red line above shows where the Port of Moses Lake intends to build a new rail line connecting the Wheeler Road corridor with the Port of Moses Lake. The project will require the port to buy a significant amount of land, and on Monday, the three commissioners overseeing the Port voted unanimously to invoke eminent domain as part of the process, primarily to help landowners avoid paying state excise taxes on the land sales.

The red line above shows where the Port of Moses Lake intends to build a new rail line connecting the Wheeler Road corridor with the Port of Moses Lake. The project will require the port to buy a significant amount of land, and on Monday, the three commissioners overseeing the Port voted unanimously to invoke eminent domain as part of the process, primarily to help landowners avoid paying state excise taxes on the land sales.

May 10, 2022

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Port of Moses Lake buys land using eminent domain
May 10, 2022 1:20 a.m.

Port of Moses Lake buys land using eminent domain

Land to be used for CBR expansion

MOSES LAKE — Benjamin Franklin said that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. However, for landowners selling their property to the Port of Moses Lake for the extension of the Columbia Basin Railroad along Wheeler Road, a quirk in the law will allow them to avoid paying real estate excise taxes...