I fully understand the paragraph everyone keeps quoting.  I don't see it that way.  The DR is not talking about the street's ditches, they are "one" a kit or a group, extension what we drive on.  That refers to easements between yards, sides, back etc.  It does not mean the ditch in front/side of the house along the street.  "The street" is fifty feet of stuff which includes the road we drive on and the edge we commonly refer to as the ditch.  That paragraph isn't talking to the road's ditch.  It's referring to the obvious easements listed on one's plot evidenced by spaces outside of metal pins etc.    OPA has us believing that the road's ditch is an easement.  It's actually part of the road, can't have the road without the ditch of whatever inside the 50 feet.  OPA was given the responsibility of the roads and as such the ditches.  And as such is their responsibility to maintain; slope, culverts, leaves etc.