This Chapter of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) concerns private ditches and drains. More specifically, it provides for private parties authorized to establish ditches and drains; petition to appropriate, and contents; cost bond by petitioner; viewers to be appointed, and duties; report of viewers and plat to be filed; summons to landowners, and contents and form; service by publication; trial, findings or verdict, decree, time for payment of award; appeal; compensation of viewers, and costs; new viewers may be appointed if report not adopted; drainage of tide or marsh lands, and division of cost between contiguous tracts; dike or ditch as common boundary, and division of costs; dike, dam, or causeway at bachelor slough.
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