B. Engineer's Detailed Survey Report B. Engineer's Detailed Survey Report

B. Engineer’s Detailed Survey Report

After the detailed survey is ordered, the engineer must proceed to survey the lines of the proposed drainage project and survey and examine affected property.⁶⁷⁶ The public drainage code defines “affected” to mean “benefited or damaged by a drainage system or project.”⁶⁷⁷ The engineer’s detailed survey report is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 3, Section IV, Paragraph B.

The engineer has more discretion in preparing the detailed survey than in preparing the preliminary survey. The public drainage code allows the engineer to lay out the project differently, to start from a different starting point, and to realign the drain and plan described in the preliminary hearing, in order to drain the property likely to be assessed in the proposed project.⁶⁷⁸ The engineer may survey and recommend the location of additional ditches and tile, more desirable outlets or extension of outlets, and may even have the drainage flow in different directions from that which was described at the preliminary hearing.⁶⁷⁹

Information required within the engineer’s detailed survey report is detailed in Chapter 3, Section IV, Paragraph C.

If the outlet is only practical in an adjoining state, the engineer must also describe the right-of-way needed and the cost of obtaining the right-of-way and constructing the outlet.⁶⁸⁰

If construction of the proposed drainage project would be more economical, the engineer may, in the detailed survey report, recommend that the work be divided into sections and contracted separately, that the ditch and tile work or tile and labor on the project be contracted separately, or otherwise propose the time and manner in which the work is to be completed.⁶⁸¹

Please refer to Chapter 3 for additional recommended instructions on preparing the engineer’s detailed survey report.

When the engineer files duplicate copies of the engineer's final report with the auditors of any affected counties or secretary of the watershed district, the auditor or secretary must send a copy of the report to the Commissioner of Department of Natural Resources.⁶⁸²

FOOTNOTES

⁶⁷⁶ Minn. Stat. § 103E.271, subd. 1 (2015).
⁶⁷⁷ Minn. Stat. § 103E.005, subd. 2 (2015).
⁶⁷⁸ Minn. Stat. § 103E.275(a) (2015).
⁶⁷⁹ Minn. Stat. § 103E.275(b)(1)-(3) (2015).
⁶⁸⁰ Minn. Stat. § 103E.285, subd. 11 (2015).
⁶⁸¹ Minn. Stat. § 103E.285, subd. 9(1)-(3) (2015).
⁶⁸² Minn. Stat. § 103E.291 (2015).