In this area the drainage ditch is county right-of-way and is maintained with money assessed from the land owners in the drainage district that drains into that ditch. I'm sure it's that way in most areas. For the ditch that goes through my farm the easment is 80 feet wide, or 40 feet either side of the center of the ditch. For the past five years or so our county has been cleaning the trees off of the ditches with the idea that they will come through and spray any new trees every five years. I'm not holding my breath waiting to see if they do come and spray.
To clean a ditch out, a petition is need, signed by a certain percentage of the landowners. The cleaning expense is assesed to every landowner in the drainage district and it can be pretty painful. Some spot cleaning can probably be done by a landowner but he has to clear it with the county supervisors first. They probably wouldn't care if the landowner cleaned the trees out.
About thirty years ago a neighbor cleaned about 1000 feet of the end of my ditch with dynamite. It was kind of spectacular to watch and it did make a trench about six feet wide and two feet deep in the mud, but the rest of the ditch beyond it was not cleaned so the water from the new trench didn't have anywhere to go. Jim
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