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Right of way boundaries will be marked with steel posts and right of way signs. The County will perform routine inspections for right of way encroachments each Fall and re-inspect each Spring. Those persons damaging or removing highway right of way signs will be held responsible for the repair or replacement of the signs. In addition, and in accordance with N.D.C.C § 24-05-23, any landowner who encroaches upon a county highway right of way or its ditches or approaches will be given notice, no later than September 15th each year, by the Cass County Highway Department that the encroachment has been discovered. The landowner must remove the encroachment within 30 days of receipt of this <br />notice. Failure to remedy this situation will cause the landowner to be liable to the County for damages resulting from the encroachment. The county will conduct the work necessary and the landowner will be liable for the cost associated with correcting the damages. The expense of the <br />repair will become part of the taxes to be levied against the land for the ensuing year and must be collected in the same manner as other real estate taxes are collected. Corrective action will include, but not be limited to, replacement of approved or recommended grass seed or correction <br />of slopes or ditches that have been altered as a result of the encroachment. Entities eligible for funding: Funding should generally be for flood protection for communities or individuals that live outside of the Diversion protected area or those within the Diversion protected area that do not receive a significant benefit from the Diversion. This includes: 1. Cities 2. Townships 3. Water Resource Districts 4. Individual Farmsteads <br /> Types of projects eligible for funding: 1. Levee construction or recertification for cities or rural subdivisions. Generally levee <br />projects should be constructed to FEMA and/or US Army Corps of Engineer standards and be able to bring the benefited area out of the 1% chance (100 year) floodplain. These levees would also need to be maintained at that standard by either the city or township <br />that is a member of the National Flood Insurance Program. Rural subdivisions seeking this funding would need to complete an agreement with the township and form an assessment district for the long term maintenance of the levee. 2. Flood control projects. 3. Water retention or detention projects. 4. Dam construction or maintenance. 5. Lift Stations for removing storm water from within a levee protected area. 6. Rural Farmstead Ring Levees (in conjunction with the ND State Water Commission 50% cost share) as outlined on the ND State Water Commission website under “Cost Share” at http://www.swc.state.nd.us/project_development/cost_share.html. Generally levee projects should be constructed to FEMA and/or US Army Corps of Engineer standards. However, individual rural farmsteads cannot be “certified” by FEMA or the US Army Corps of Engineers as they not maintained by either a city or township that is a member of the National Flood Insurance Program. <br />7. Road Projects that provide infrastructure protection to prevent significant future flood damage. These requests may be standalone projects or in conjunction with post-flood damage repair with or without FEMA cost share. <br />8. Road access (road raises or other infrastructure improvements that will allow access to a city, subdivision, or rural residence/farmstead).