The Department of Transportation shall maintain the highway drainage system insofar as is possible in such manner as to prevent silt from such system from obstructing any part of a tax ditch. If silt enters from the highway system and obstructs a tax ditch the Department of Transportation shall remove the same within a reasonable time after being given notice of such obstruction by the ditch managers.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 41. DRAINAGE OF LANDS AND MANAGEMENT OF WATERS; TAX DITCHES
Subchapter VI. General Provisions
§ 4185. Payment of damages and compensation.
§ 4186. Obstruction of or damage to tax ditch; civil and criminal liability.
§ 4187. Right of entry upon lands.
§ 4188. Addition of territory to a tax ditch.
§ 4189. Alteration of tax ditches; amendments to ditch orders.
§ 4191. Ditches near highways.
§ 4192. Dissolution of tax ditch.
§ 4193. Ditches in Kent County; transfer by Department of Transportation to tax ditch.
§ 4194. Appropriations to Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.