Paragraph 85 InterpretationI1

Subject to paragraph 84, if by reason of the construction of any specified work or of the failure of any such work the efficiency of any ordinary watercourse for flood defence or land drainage purposes is impaired, or that watercourse is otherwise damaged, so as to require remedial action, such impairment or damage must be made good by the undertaker to the reasonable satisfaction of the authority and if the undertaker fails to do so, the authority may make good the same and recover from the undertaker the proper and reasonable expense reasonably incurred by it in so doing.