88.64 Assessment against municipalities for enlargement or maintenance of drains.
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88.64 Assessment against municipalities for enlargement or maintenance of drains.
(1)In this section:
(a)“Enlarge” means to increase the capacity of a drain to convey water, including adding facilities such as pumps or lift stations, by performing any necessary construction.
(b)“Municipality” means a city, village or town.
(2)A drainage board may assess a municipality with territory upstream from any drain for any costs of enlarging or maintaining the drain that are attributable to increased water flow from land within the municipality. If the drainage board assesses a portion of the costs of enlarging or maintaining a drain against a municipality, the drainage board shall use the procedure under this section.
(3)The drainage board shall obtain a report prepared by a professional engineer who is selected from the list specified in s. 88.21
(5). The report shall include all of the following:
(a)The construction and costs that are necessary to restore the drain so that it conveys the same amount of water as when most recently constructed or enlarged.
(b)The construction and costs that are necessary to enlarge the drain to convey the flow of water from any land in the drainage district or upstream from the drainage district that has been newly drained since the drain was most recently constructed or enlarged.