Purpose of this policy

1   To establish responsibilities for the disposition of spoil from ditch and watercourse cleaning operations in the Dyking, Drainage and IrrigationDistricts.

Authority

2   Council.

Guiding principles

3   (1) Property owners of lands adjacent to drainage/irrigation ditches and watercourses, which are maintained by the City on behalf of the Dyking, Drainage and Irrigation Districts, shall accept the spoil material from ditch and watercourse cleaning operations. The property owner shall be responsible to level the material, move it elsewhere on the property, or otherwise dispose of it.

(2) The spoil from cleaning operations on natural creeks, as defined on Map D-660, Lowland Watercourse Classification, shall be the responsibility of the Dyking, Drainage and Irrigation District, if in the opinion of the appropriate DDI Committee, it exceeds the amount that might normally be expected if the watercourse were classified as a constructed ditch or channelized watercourse.

(3) The Dyking, Drainage and Irrigation District shall assist with the trucking of spoil along ditches in landscaped areas, areas of adjacent buildings, or other similar situations. A dump site shall be required by the owner for spoil removed in these cases.

(4) The spoil removed from ditches shall be cleared from the ditch bank by the land owner prior to the following September.

(5) Perennial-type crops, i.e. berries, orchards, etc., shall maintain a clear zone of at least 6 m from the top of the watercourse for maintenance activities.