How do viewers determine benefits & damages?
- Viewers verify and identify land parcels, roads, and other infrastructure served by a public drainage system.
- Viewers then use mass appraisal methods to determine benefits of the drainage system. A number of variables; including land use, productivity, value, drainage outlet potential, and drainage system requirements or impacts are used by the Viewers to determine system benefits and damages.
- The redetermined benefits replace those used by the county to allocate drainage system repair or maintenance assessments found on yearly tax statements.