The Department may serve a notice on the owner or occupier of any land adjoining a road, requiring him to construct and lay such drains, erect such barriers or embankments or do such other works as are necessary to prevent any solid matter from such land from falling upon, or being washed or carried on to, the road, or into any drain, sewer or gully therein, in such quantities as may cause danger or substantial inconvenience to users of the road, or choke up the drain, sewer or gully.