As soon as practicable after the right to abandon the eminent domain proceedings has expired, the county board shall employ some competent person who shall determine the width, height, grade and other requisites of such levee, and shall, by written specification and suitable markings on the line of said levee, indicate plainly the grade, height, filling, ditches, water gates and other work to be done in constructing such levee, and shall estimate the respective amounts of grading, ditching, water gates and other work to be done in its construction, and shall file such specifications and estimates with the clerk.
K.S.A. 24-807