Title WAT, California Water Code

The works may be situated within or without the territorial limits of the city. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The city council shall have some competent person make general plans and estimates of the cost of the contemplated works. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The general plans and estimates shall, after adoption, be filed in the office of the clerk of the city, and shall be substantially adhered to thereafter in proceedings under this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

After the filing of the general plans and estimates, and by resolution or ordinance of intention passed at a regular meeting by a vote of two-thirds of all its members and approved by the executive of the city, the city council shall determine, if so advised, that the public good…

The city council, by the same resolution or ordinance, shall determine, if so advised, that the cost of the works will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary income or revenue of the city. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

The resolution or ordinance of intention, shall, after its passage and approval, be published. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this division. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Agency” means the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Board” means the board of directors of the agency. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Eligible public entities” means the 24 public entities in San Mateo County, Alameda County, and Santa Clara County that purchase water from San Francisco pursuant to the July 2009 Water Supply Agreement, or any subsequent water supply contract, that include Alameda County Water …

“Project” means a work and all of the activities related to, or necessary for, the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of a work, including, but not limited to, planning, design, financing, contracting, project management, and administration. (Added by Stats. 200…

“Regional water system” means facilities for the storage, treatment, and transmission of water operated by San Francisco located in the Counties of Tuolumne, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, and three terminal reservoirs in San Francisco. (Added by Stats.…

“San Francisco” means the City and County of San Francisco. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Work” or “works” include, but is not limited to, reservoirs, water treatment plants, facilities for the transmission of water, water conservation measures and programs, facilities for the conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater, and facilities for the transmission of re…

“Zone” means an improvement district, assessment district, or area benefiting from a project. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 844, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this division. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Authority” means the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Water System Financing Authority. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Board” means the board of directors of the authority. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

“Master water sales contract” means the document entitled “Settlement Agreement and Master Water Sales Contract between the City and County of San Francisco and Certain Suburban Purchasers in San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, and Alameda County,” dated July 1, 1984. (Added by…

“Project” means a work and all of the activities related to, or necessary for, the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of a work including, but not limited to, planning, design, financing, contracting, project management, and administration. (Added by Stats. 200…

“Public entities” means San Francisco and the public entities in the Counties of Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara that purchase water from San Francisco pursuant to the July 2009 Water Supply Agreement, or any subsequent water supply contract, that include Alameda County Water…

“Regional water system” means facilities for the storage, treatment, and transmission of water operated and maintained by San Francisco located in the Counties of Tuolumne, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, and three terminal reservoirs in San Francisco. (…

“San Francisco” means the City and County of San Francisco. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 849, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The report of the California Debris Commission transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States by the Secretary of War on June 27, 1911, as modified by the report of the California Debris Commission, dated January 5, 1925, and as heretofore amended…

The board in conjunction with the California Debris Commission shall execute the plan approved by this chapter, and the board may make such modifications and amendments to the plan as are necessary to execute the plan for the purpose stated. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

For the purpose of cooperating in the carrying out and completion of the plan approved in Section 8525, and on condition that the United States will likewise cooperate in the carrying out of the plan and, to that end, will appropriate and make available to the extent that it has …

The intent of the next preceding section is to provide for substantially equal contributions by the United States, the State and local interests to the total cost of carrying out the plan, it being recognized that certain local interests have become obligated in excess of one-thi…

All money appropriated under authority of Section 8527 shall be expended in accordance with the plans, specifications and recommendations of the California Debris Commission and the board for purposes in general conformity with the plan approved in Section 8525, including expendi…

The board shall have control and jurisdiction over the plans of the California Debris Commission and such other plans as may be adopted by the board, excepting such portions of the plans as relate to channel excavating, enlargement, rectification and control in the Sacramento Riv…

The Statutes of California as existing on April 1, 1923, shall be observed and followed: (a) In all plans, hearings, notices and proceedings relating to the maintenance, repair and operation of reclamation and flood control works existing on April 1, 1923. (b) In the completion, …

The State has a primary interest in adequately protecting lands overflowed, or subject to overflow, in confining the waters of rivers, tributaries, by-passes and overflow channels and basins within their respective basins and boundaries within the district, and in preserving the …

The State has a primary and supreme interest in having erected, maintained and protected on the banks of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, their tributaries, by-passes, overflow channels and basins, good and sufficient levees and embankments or other works of reclamation, ad…

The board at all times shall enforce on behalf of the State the erection, maintenance and protection of such levees, embankments and channel rectification as will, in its judgment, best serve the interests of the State. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

Consistent with Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, the board, after holding at least one public hearing, may set and charge fees sufficient to cover the reasonable cost for the services it provides in carrying out its duties set forth in Sections 8502 and…

The board has no power, jurisdiction, authority or control over the construction, operation or maintenance of the Central Valley Project or any part of it. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.)

No county or public officer shall charge or receive any fee for any of the services required to be performed by him under the provisions of this part, but any reasonable and necessary expense actually incurred by any officer in carrying out any of the provisions of this part rela…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an urgent need for channel clearing and desnagging in many California waterways, and that these snags pose a severe danger and cause unnecessary erosion of banks. The board, other state agencies, cities, counties, and distri…

The State hereby consents to the use and occupation of any real property now or hereafter owned by it, and not dedicated to public use, necessary for the construction, operation, or maintenance of the project, including land of the State lying beneath any navigable waters of the …

Whenever any land or rights of way of the State heretofore or hereafter dedicated to public use are necessary for the construction, operation, or maintenance of the project, the land or rights of way may be used therefor, but only in accordance with the terms and conditions of an…

If the waters of an interstate body of water have been allocated between California and another state or Indian tribe by a compact, United States Supreme Court decree, or other appropriate method of allocating interstate waters, the board shall exercise its authority under this d…

(a) A right of appropriation from a stream that flows across the state boundary that has the point of diversion and the place of use in another state and is recognized by the laws of that state shall have the same force and effect as if the point of diversion and the place of use…

It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a primary interest in the control and conservation of flood waters, prevention of damage by flood waters, the washing away of river and stream banks by floods, and in the determination of the manner in which flood waters sha…

It is hereby declared that recurrent floods on streams and rivers, and other waterways of the State, causing loss of life and property, disruption of commerce, interruption of transportation and communications, and wasting of water, are detrimental to the peace, health, safety, a…

It is further declared that the State should engage in the study and coordination of all water development projects, including flood control projects, undertaken by counties, cities, state agencies and public districts, and the United States or any of its departments or agencies …

In studying water development projects, full consideration shall be given to all beneficial uses of the State’s water resources, including irrigation, generation of electric energy, municipal and industrial consumption of water and power, repulsion of salt water, preservation and…

Fish and wildlife values, both economic and recreational, shall be given consideration in any flood control or water conservation program. In the design, construction, and operation of projects, when engineering and economic features of the project make it practicable, adequate p…