What is San Bernardino County Drainage Easement(SBCDE)?
In most cases, SBCDEs are granted as means for the County to direct flows under roads without causing any erosion upstream and/or downstream. These easements allow the County to enter onto private property for the purposes necessary to control flows within the easement areas and preclude the owners from building within them without the County’s approval. Any public improvements constructed within a SBCDE would be maintained by the County, most likely the Road Department and very few SBCDEs have improvements constructed on them. If the County has never done maintenance within a SBCDE then it most likely does not have an obligation to do so. It should be noted that the Flood Control District (District) has no right or obligation to work within a SBCDE.It also should be noted that the vast majority of the SBCDEs offered to the County fall into one of the following categories: • Rejected outright, where the County has no rights to enter the property without first going through a Board of S
