Drainage 101 County Roadways, City Streets and Drainage Ways: Best Practices and Resources Guide

The time individual engineers, administrators and their staff invest in researching drainage law and defining the best approach to solving drainage issues can be considerable. This document provides quick access to information needed to solve those problems and discover legal solutions to recurring drainage issues and the time saved could be invested in other pressing public responsibilities. This study also contains information which might be useful to local elected officials, private property owners and other interested parties as it offers concise educational materials that simplify and inform them on drainage issues and laws related to regional watershed protection, county road/highway ditches, city street/storm sewers and related drainage infrastructure.