Thank you for submitting your issue to the Washtenaw County Road Commission. We are working to address this issue as soon as we can. Thank you for taking the time to let us know.

Thank you for acknowledging my issue. Do you have any time line when the ditch will be dug out? My lawn is still flooded, and there is standing water in my lawn and in the ditch. Thank you.

I was able to mow my entire lawn for the first time yesterday, June 24, due to the flooding from the ditch. I would like to thank you for your help. I would like to thank you, that is, but I can't, as you have not done anything yet. The ditch, or rather lack of a ditch has been a problem for a couple years now, and I would appreciate having it dug out, as there is virtually no ditch left.

I also went out today and cut down all the weeds in the ditch, aside from a small section that the road commission cut down a week or two ago. This was the first time in the fourteen years that I have lived here that I had to cut down the weeds. The road commission has always done this before. It's sad that I, a 60 year old man with an electric hedge trimmer, had to cut down about 700 feet of ditch weeds by hand, instead of the road crew with appropriate machinery! My guess is part of the reason is that the weeds are slowly growing into our yard and out of reach of your mower, because the ditch is disappearing.

Here's an idea: why don't you dig out the ditch? That way the weeds won't grow into our yard, so when you mow along the street you will be able to mow ALL the weeds! And, our yard won't flood as much, so I can mow it before the grass gets to be three feet high! It's win-win: the ditch gets dug, and the weeds don't grow so high as to block the view of traffic when pulling out of the side street.

I appreciate that you have acknowledged the problem... almost 2 months ago... but how about some action?

Still waiting to hear when the ditch will be dug out, hopefully before the wet Spring season so that the yard is not once again flooded. Thank you.

I was thinking, that since you no longer seem to mow the weeds by the side of the road, perhaps you would now have time to dig out the ditch along the side of the road mentioned above. Just a thought. Thank you for your (hopefully) help!

Issue 4388558 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue.

The road that you are referring to is classified as a local road. The amount of state funding allocated towards local roads is often not even enough to fund winter maintenance, pothole filling and road grading

If WCRC wants to make a local road improvement beyond routine maintenance (such as a bridge replacement, ditching and forestry, or road resurfacing), the project’s funding must be matched by a source other than WCRC, typically a township.

For a list of current projects on local roads please see our project list at http://www.wcroads.org/road-work-construction/projects/

If you don't see the road you are looking for on this list and would like to suggest future improvements, please contact your township directly.

For more information on road funding please visit http://www.wcroads.org/faq/road-funding/