The drainage act needs a…

The drainage act needs a strong time line and consequences for failing to meet. I currently have a simple project to control road water running into my property however since the County does not want to pay the project is sitting idle for close to 5 years. Also engineers need to be protected that if they provide proper and fair cost distribution to municipalities they do not face reprisals or loss of work from the municipality employing them. For example the farmer cutoff benefit was charged at a rate about 10 times what the same municipal cutoff benefit per acre/unit.

Secondly, once a drain is engineered and approved maintenance should not longer require approvals as everyone has had their say, no person in the city would accept months or years removal from ones house to wait for a permission to maintain systems to make the systems function as designed and approved why are rural residents given the same standard of care. If a water, sewer, stormwater, gas, hydro etc is broken it is fixed immediately why does rural infrastructure of municipal drainage not receive the same standard of care, how is this fair.

Thirdly, a CA has a defined process under the drainage act but refuses to follow this and then requests another approval process through them. They have their process defined and if they do not act within the specified time periods the project goes ahead. I my case the CA simply stated they will not approve projects intended to improve the environment and P control but refuse to say why until legal assistance was brought in, the issues must open honest and properly put forth or the CA must face consequences for random, unspecified, denial or refusal to part in the process to improve projects for the environment. This again held up the process for years without the CA identifying and issues and refusing to identify issues when engineer asked.