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Drain assessments are special fees landowners and municipalities in a drainage district are legally obligated to pay to cover the cost of maintaining, improving or establishing a designated county drainage system. Drainage districts are legally established areas of land draining to a common outlet.

Drainage Easements are obtained for specific uses such as storm water conveyance, storm water detention, ponding, floodplain or as access routes for operating, maintaining or repairing County Drains. Drainage Easements are not to be considered public areas and are not open to the public.

Drain assessments are special fees landowners and municipalities in a drainage district are legally obligated to pay to cover the cost of maintaining, improving or establishing a designated county drainage system. Drainage districts are legally established areas of land draining to a common outlet.

Michigan's “Natural Flow Doctrine” states that if your property is at a higher elevation than your neighbor's, the water that falls on your property most likely flows over your neighbor's land. You have a right to continue this natural flow, and your neighbor has a duty to not interfere with it.

Documents to be filed with the appellate court include: Filing Fee. True Copy of Bond (if applicable) Proof of Service. Original Claim of Appeal. Copy of order or judgment appealed from. Copy of Trial Court Docket. Jurisdiction Checklist. Docketing Statement.

AN ACT to codify the laws relating to the laying out of drainage districts, the consolidation of drainage districts, the construction and maintenance of drains, sewers, pumping equipment, bridges, culverts, fords, and the structures and mechanical devices to properly purify the flow of drains; to provide for flood ...

Michigan's “Natural Flow Doctrine” states that if your property is at a higher elevation than your neighbor's, the water that falls on your property most likely flows over your neighbor's land. You have a right to continue this natural flow, and your neighbor has a duty to not interfere with it.

As a general rule, landowners may not artificially concentrate or increase the velocity of surface waters. Likewise, landowners may not dam up a water course and force natural water flows to back up and to flood other land holdings.