Draining road into my field

[Pie face]

Does anyone know under what powers if any the council can drain a road into surrounding fields. I asked an operator who was clearing grips and he said the council has a right to do it, but as they create a problem on my land by exercising that right do I have a claim against them? Obviously it's cheaper for the council to drain the road like this than to install gulliesn and pipe the runoff into water courses but that cheapness is at my cost.

 

[soilbug]

It appears that the council have breached your "biosecurity" by dumping possibly contaminated run-off onto your field. This could be a killer if you have a dairy herd for example where neighbours slosh slurry onto the road and disease organisms affect your pasture. Most councils are basically bust because they are run by ludite numpties who hate to retire - and are now paid to serve (plus expense claims!) - and over-ambitious officers who like to spend on shop-front projects. So no money for drains any more. Mostly it needs a long soakaway ditch alongside the highway but that needs a back-actor tractor when they cannot even keep up with the pothole repair costs
soilbug.

 

[dave6470]

If they did put in a drain it wood porobly be like the one they did near me in a dip in the road the water has to run up hill to get into the drain

 

[Crex]

Water runs down hill. Surely if you are lower than the road you just have to accept it?

 

[Kidds]

Had this argument with the Council. Apparently they do have a right to do so.

 

[br jones]

Had this argument with the Council. Apparently they do have a right to do so.

Not anymore ,read about suds

 

[Lincs Lass]

They often dig grips in the verges here ,,they have too as the drains are full from lack of flushing them out or they scrape the overgrowth of the footpaths and dump it in the hedge bottoms

 

[PSQ]

Apparently they do have a right to do so.

And you have the 'right' to follow them at a safe distance and fill them in. Don't fill the new grip at the edge of the road, but take the neatly cut turf they've left behind and build a bund across the grip under the hedge / fence in the longer grass, then you're good for another 12 months

 

[Kidds]

And you have the 'right' to follow them at a safe distance and fill them in. Don't fill the new grip at the edge of the road, but take the neatly cut turf they've left behind and build a bund across the grip under the hedge / fence in the longer grass, then you're good for another 12 months

At least twelve months, usually longer.

 

[puppet]

Around here there is a channel every 20 or 30 yards. The only outlet is into fields and I am not aware of any farmer blocking them. In fact some have commented that they do not clear the rubbish under the fence letting the water away because the mini digger cannot reach there. Even with our rainfall it does not create wet patches.
I thought the rule was that you had to take water from your neighbour.