What is ditch viewing?
Drainage projects must be financially feasible to be constructed. Projects also require money to cover the cost of design, property acquisition, construction, and future maintenance of the system. A process for determining the benefits and damages that a drainage system generates is called "viewing". Viewing, not only determines if a drainage project is financially feasible, but also provides a formula for distributing construction costs as well as future maintenance costs of a drainage project.
The viewing process is a mass appraisal of all the land in a drainage systems' watershed, including roads and building sites. Viewing determines how maintenace costs are distributed among the acres within the watershed in a fair and equitable manner.