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Drainage Engineer
In addition to transportation,
surveying, and land record keeping duties, the Franklin County Engineer has been designated
by the Board of County Commissioners to serve as the "Drainage Engineer."
In this capacity, the engineer's office
works to control flooding, prevent erosion, and promote better water
quality in unincorporated areas through the repair and improvement of county and joint county
ditches, drains, retention basins and other watercourses within the public
right-of-way along county routes.
The County Drainage Engineer is
not responsible for storm water management on private property, but drainage
assistance in unincorporated areas can be requested through the county's ditch
petition process, or for new subdivisions, through the subdivision platting
process. The cost of these improvements are then assessed to the property owners
in the petitioned areas. Currently, the county's petition ditch inventory
includes 94 miles of open ditches, and 147 miles of closed (tiled) ditches.
We work closely with the Franklin County Board of Health,
Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District, Ohio Environmental Protection
Agency, and other government agencies and environmental groups to resolve drainage issues and to develop regional storm
water management plans.
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