The biggest problems I've seen in this neck of the woods are 1. Roads built on the cheap. Just more and more gravel slapped over the topsoil or, at best, the subsoil with no grade work underneath. The driveway gravel is the most permeable surface so water flows along the clay road being lower and more compacted than the gravel and surrounding soil. The other is the 'love' people have of running a grader blade in the road to 'freshen it up' with no regard for pitch, slope, or angle.
Usually after 5, 10, or 20 years of this, or more, the road is such a mess and so far below the surrounding grade it takes heavy machinery to re-cut the ditches and rebuild it right. There's the cheap fix and the right fix. I've had to do all of mine. Usually do one every other year at each farm. Still got one spot here I don't like. I've got to cut it to run electric under it anyway so I'm probably going to put a drain tile in while Im at it to get water to the downhill side.
Second law of plumbing.... 'stuff' runs downhill, always through the path of least resistance.
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