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li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Environmental_law" title="Template:Environmental law"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Environmental_law" title="Template talk:Environmental law"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Environmental_law" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Environmental law"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Drainage law</b> is a specific area of <a href="/wiki/Water_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Water law">water law</a> related to <a href="/wiki/Drainage" title="Drainage">drainage</a> of <a href="/wiki/Surface_water" title="Surface water">surface water</a> on <a href="/wiki/Real_property" title="Real property">real property</a>. It is particularly important in areas where <a href="/wiki/Freshwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Freshwater">freshwater</a> is scarce, <a href="/wiki/Flooding" class="mw-redirect" title="Flooding">flooding</a> is common, or water is in high demand for <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agricultural</a> or <a href="/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce">commercial</a> purposes. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_United_States">In the United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: In the United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, regulation of drainage is typically done on the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> and <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">local</a> level. In addition to whatever <a href="/wiki/Statute" title="Statute">statutes</a> or <a href="/wiki/Local_ordinance" title="Local ordinance">local ordinances</a> may be in effect in a given locality, there are three basic legal doctrines which the various <a href="/wiki/State_court_(United_States)" title="State court (United States)">state courts</a> recognize.<sup id="cite_ref-Cole_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">State of Michigan</a>, drainage law is so important that most <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">counties</a> still elect a <a href="/wiki/Drain_commissioner" title="Drain commissioner">drain commissioner</a> to regulate drainage of surface water. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Common_enemy_doctrine">Common enemy doctrine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Common enemy doctrine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The common enemy doctrine is a rule derived from <a href="/wiki/English_law" title="English law">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a>. It holds that because surface water is a "common enemy" of landowners, each landowner has the right to alter the drainage pattern of his land (for example by building <a href="/wiki/Dike_(construction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dike (construction)">dikes</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ditch" title="Ditch">drainage channels</a>) without regard for the effects on neighboring parcels, as long as that water flows to where it otherwise would have naturally flowed. Typically, a landowner can capture surface water (e.g. by <a href="/wiki/Rain_barrel" class="mw-redirect" title="Rain barrel">rain barrels</a> or <a href="/wiki/Dam" title="Dam">dams</a>) as well, and lower landowners will not have a <a href="/wiki/Cause_of_action" title="Cause of action">cause of action</a> unless the diversion is malicious.<sup id="cite_ref-BarBri_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BarBri-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This rule is followed by approximately half of the U.S. states, although some states have modified the doctrine to hold landowners liable for <a href="/wiki/Negligence" title="Negligence">negligent</a> damage to parcels of neighboring landowners. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_law_rule">Civil law rule</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Civil law rule"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The civil law rule, so named because it is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" title="Civil law (legal system)">civil law systems</a> of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, is effectively the opposite of the common enemy doctrine. It holds that the owner of a parcel of lower land must accept the natural drainage from higher parcels and cannot alter the drainage pattern of his own land to increase the drainage flow onto lower parcels. For this reason the rule is sometimes referred to as the "natural flow rule". </p><p>Application of the civil law rule in its purest form would inhibit development of land because virtually every <a href="/wiki/Land_improvement" class="mw-redirect" title="Land improvement">improvement</a> on a parcel alters natural drainage. For this reason this rule has been modified in those jurisdictions that use it in order to permit reasonable changes in natural flow, often weighing the competing interests of neighboring landholders with the benefit of the development of the parcel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reasonable_use_rule">Reasonable use rule</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Reasonable use rule"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The reasonable use rule presents an alternative to both the common enemy doctrine and the civil law rule. It allows a landowner to make "reasonable" alteration to the drainage pattern of his parcel, with liability only when the alteration causes "unreasonable" harm of neighboring parcels. Judicial mitigation of the common enemy doctrine and civil law rule often results in an approximation of the reasonable use rule.<sup id="cite_ref-BarBri_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BarBri-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because the reasonable use rule presents a subjective standard, courts will often employ a <a href="/wiki/Balancing_test" title="Balancing test">balancing test</a> to determine whether a landowner is liable to neighbors for alteration of drainage. For example, under the <a href="/wiki/Restatement_of_Torts" class="mw-redirect" title="Restatement of Torts">Restatement of Torts</a>, the test was: </p> <ol><li>Was there reasonable necessity for the property owner to alter the drainage to make use of their land?</li> <li>Was the alteration done in a reasonable manner?</li> <li>Does the utility of the actor’s conduct reasonably outweigh the gravity of harm to others?</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_United_Kingdom">In the United Kingdom</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: In the United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Land_drainage_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Land drainage in the United Kingdom">Land drainage in the United Kingdom</a></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> the Land Drainage Act 1991 decrees drainage of land in England and Wales, but does not cover sewerage and water supplies but the actual process of draining land itself. The act defines who is responsible for various aspects of land drainage and the different areas in which the law applies.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Land_Drainage_Act" title="Land Drainage Act">Land Drainage Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Best_management_practice_for_water_pollution" title="Best management practice for water pollution">Best management practice for water pollution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_stormwater_management_rules" title="New Jersey stormwater management rules">New Jersey stormwater management rules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_groundwater_law" title="United States groundwater law">United States groundwater law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_politics" title="Water politics">Water politics</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drainage_law&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Sewers and drains". <a href="/wiki/Halsbury%27s_Laws_of_England" title="Halsbury&#39;s Laws of England">Halsbury's Laws of England</a>. First Edition. Volume 25.</li> <li>G G Kennedy and J S Sandars. The Law of Land Drainage &amp; Sewers. Waterlow Bros &amp; Layton. London. 1884. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007700555">HathiTrust</a></li> <li>The Drainage Acts, Ontario. A Poole. Toronto. 1908. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100298584">HathiTrust</a></li> <li>Garner's Law of Sewers and Drains. Ninth Edition. Shaw &amp; Sons. 2004. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-0UrAAAACAAJ">Google Books</a></li> <li>John Francis Garner. The Law of Sewers and Drains: Under the Public Health Acts. Shaw. 1950. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=H25H2SqSk6wC">Google Books</a></li> <li>Humphry William Woolrych. A Treatise on the Law of Waters, and of Sewers. Sauders and Benning. Fleet Street, London. 1830. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj1fAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PR1">Google Books</a>.</li> <li>Humphry William Woolrych. A Treatise of the Law of Sewers, including the Drainage Acts. Second Edition. 1849. Third Edition. 1864. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100766292">HathiTrust</a></li> <li>The Laws of Sewers. Printed by E and R Nutt and R Gosling at the Lamb without Temple Bar. 1726. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1BBXAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PR2">Google Books</a></li> <li>William John Broderip. The Reading of the Famous and Learned Robert Callis Esq Upon the Statute of Sewers. Fourth Edition. Joseph Butterworth and Son. 1824. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DkhfAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PR3">Google Books</a></li> <li>Clarke's Bibliotheca Legum. 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(1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub/862/">"Liability Rules for Surface Water Drainage: A Simple Economic Analysis"</a>. <i>George Mason University Law Review</i>. <b>12</b> (1): 35–55.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=George+Mason+University+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Liability+Rules+for+Surface+Water+Drainage%3A+A+Simple+Economic+Analysis&amp;rft.volume=12&amp;rft.issue=1&amp;rft.pages=35-55&amp;rft.date=1989&amp;rft.aulast=Cole&amp;rft.aufirst=Daniel+H.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.repository.law.indiana.edu%2Ffacpub%2F862%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADrainage+law" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BarBri-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BarBri_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BarBri_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/BarBri" class="mw-redirect" title="BarBri">BarBri</a> Real Property Outline 2004, p. 145</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/59/contents">"Land Drainage Act 1991"</a>. 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