The Jeffersonian Grid is the modus operandi for urbanization across North America, extending from the Boreal forest to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Appalachians to the Rockies. For the past two centuries this system of rectilinear roads and property divisions has simplified a vast stretch of the Earth’s surface into a reliable mechanism of extraction and representation. The continuous connectivity of the Jeffersonian Grid is beginning to erode and atrophy under the pressures of climate change, stagnating investment in maintenance, and fatigue of the materials which compose it. The project explores withdrawal from, and abandonment of, roads and cultivated land to manage the declining maintenance and failure of overextended infrastructure networks of the United States created by the Grid. Ceasing to maintain the sprawling infrastructure network requires re-framing of forms of solidarity within a federal system whose continuity through the Grid has been crucial to the mythologies of colonization and citizenship. The accumulation of water, from the largest flood plain to smallest gullies, becomes the new reference point for political organization and solidarity in response to the need for withdrawal. River systems, the very forces eroding the Grid, can become a common ground and space of transit.