The Department of Transportation shall maintain the highway drainage system insofar as is possible in such manner as to prevent silt from such system from obstructing any part of a tax ditch. If silt enters from the highway system and obstructs a tax ditch the Department of Transportation shall remove the same within a reasonable time after being given notice of such obstruction by the ditch managers.
48 Del. Laws, c. 151, § 67; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 4191; 60 Del. Laws, c. 503, § 21.