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Here is my experience:
When I first moved to a small town in Georgia I had a problem with runoff from the school and its parking lot across the street. Water seeking lower ground used my entire yard, sometimes up to my knees, to reach the nearest storm water ditch on the block behind my.
I tried complaining to deaf ears, being nice and being nasty, nothing worked until I said the magic word - 'easement' - I told the city man that he did not have an easement to use my property. Within minutes, yes that fast, there was a crew at the school - they dug their own ditch and made an embankment like an asphalt speed bump in the school's driveway to steer the water to an actual storm drain, Problem solved.
