Sec. 1. The department shall do the following:

(1) Investigate, compile, and disseminate information and make recommendations relative to the drainage and reclamation of land.

(2) Make surveys and reconnaissance and prepare the maps, charts, statistical tables, and other documents and appurtenances that are considered necessary to enable landowners, public officials, or other persons interested in or charged by law with the duty of promoting and securing the drainage and reclamation of land to proceed more intelligently with their work.

(3) Recommend and secure the enforcement of laws for the drainage and reclamation of the swamp, overflowed, and nonarable land of Indiana.

(4) Ascertain, determine, designate, and define natural drainage and reclamation areas. When requested, place at the disposal of the public officials charged by law with the establishment and execution of the work the information that will enable the public officials, when providing for the drainage or reclamation of a component part of the natural drainage or reclamation areas, to proceed with the work so that the component systems, when established and completed, form a scientifically integrated system whereby the entire natural drainage or reclamation area is most economically and scientifically drained or reclaimed.

(5) Prepare computations of the probable maximum quantity of water likely to be collected from a drainage or reclamation area or district and discharged by a ditch or system of ditches or drains, together with the probable maximum capacity of the outlet by which the water is to make its escape.

(6) Prepare computations of the probable maximum quantity of water likely to be restrained or impounded by a levee or dike or a system of levees or dikes, together with the location and the probable maximum height and strength of the proposed dikes or levees by which the water is to be restrained and impounded.

(7) Make the computations prepared under subdivisions (5) and (6) available, on request, to and placed at the disposal of a public official or other person authorized by law to locate, establish, or construct ditches, drains, levees, or dikes for the purpose of enabling the person to locate, establish, and construct the ditches, drains, levees, or dikes so that land other than land assessed for benefits and wherever located is not subjected to inundation, overflow, or unnecessary or unnatural hazard or inconvenience.

[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-3-1-15(a).]

As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.20.