What you need is the revenue to your local council to be cut by 20%. This is happening in the UK and all sorts of Superfluous people in local government are losing their jobs. Then they will not have to justify their highly paid position by doing stupid things like this---As they will not have a position.
But whilst on ditches occasionally overflowing-This ditch is by the side of a Mup in our area. After the snow melt in January it looked similar to these pics.
Last week the ditch was bone dry and 6ft deep.
We don't need no signs to tell us the trail is flooded-- The wet backside will tell us that.