Essential Drainage Features: The Damage Of Land Flooding And Possible Restoration

Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area with an excess of water. The internal drainage of most agricultural soils is good enough to prevent severe water-logging, but many soils need artificial drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies. It is a necessary structure to human society.

However, its failure impacts on human life are also enormous. To have a deeper look at it, this book links myths created by the Virginia Department of Transportation with Mathews County highway drainage failures that are flooding private property, destroying timber crops, damaging roads, and endangering the health of residents and the Chesapeake Bay.