County Drainage Systems History
Year	Name	a.k.a	open ditch in feet	drainage tile in feet	watershed acres	watershed acres updated	Comments	Redetermination of Benefits
1910	Dodge/Steele Joint Co. Ditch No. 11	Ripley Ditch	161,700	40,100	~25,000	27,052	162,375 ft of ditch from 1970's survey	9/19/1996
1906	Judicial Ditch No. 2	Havana Ditch	27,803				total cost $11,759.98
1953	Judicial Ditch No. 7	Havana Ditch	37,990	2,775	5,240		cleanout and improved
1921	County Ditch No. 1		1,200	11,650				update in progress 2008
1921	County Ditch No. 4			29,450
1922	County Ditch No. 5			51,750
1949	County Ditch No. 7		800	11,255	~553		open ditch destroyed - waterway now	update in progress 2008
After several discussions with the Dodge County Board of Commissioners, the Board passed a resolution on December 26, 2007 to have re-determination of benefits done on County Ditch No. 1 and County Ditch No.5. The resolution states that the Dodge County Board of County Commissioners has determined that the original benefits or damages determined in these two County Ditch systems do not reflect reasonable present day land values or that the benefited or damaged areas have changed. Therefore, the Board of County Commissioners has appointed the engineering firm of Jones, Haugh & Smith, Inc. to make a preliminary survey and to make and file their report to the Dodge County Finance Office for the purpose of assisting the viewers in their duties. The Board of County Commissioners also has appointed three viewers (Chris Christianson, Wesley Tennis, and Robert Hansen), to redetermine and report the benefits and damages of these two County Ditch Systems.   Future plans are to do re-determination of benefits on the remaining systems.