Title WAT, California Water Code

If for power purposes the application shall state the nature of the works by means of which the power is to be developed, the head and amount of water to be utilized, and the use to which the power is to be applied. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

If for municipal water supply the application shall state the present population to be served, and, as near as may be, the future requirements of the city. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) In 1911, the Legislature adopted a flood control plan for the Sacramento Valley, as proposed by the federal California Debris Commission, and created the Reclamation Board to regulate levees and other encroachments, and…

Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) “Board” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. (b) “Plan” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan. (c) “Project levee” means any levee th…

(a) The state shall not have responsibility or liability for the construction, operation, and maintenance of central valley flood control facilities identified in this article unless all of the following apply: (1) The department identifies the facility as part of the State Plan …

The projects for the control of floods and other purposes on the Sacramento River adopted by the acts of Congress approved March 1, 1917, May 15, 1928, August 26, 1937, and August 18, 1941, and adopted and authorized by the Legislature by Chapter 25, Statutes of 1911, First Extra…

The plan of flood control on the American River is hereby authorized and adopted substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, House Document Numbered 367, Eighty-first Congress, and adopted and authorized by the act of Congress approved August 1…

The project for flood protection on the Sacramento River from Chico Landing to Red Bluff, California, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 272, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, a…

The project for Hidden Reservoir and channel improvement on the Fresno River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 37, 87th Congress, and adopted and authorized by the Act of Congress a…

The project for Buchanan Reservoir and channel improvement on Chowchilla River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 98, 87th Congress, and adopted and authorized by the Act of Congress…

The project for New Melones Reservoir and channel improvement on Stanislaus River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 453, 87th Congress, and adopted and authorized by the Act of Congr…

The Mormon Slough channel improvement project on Calaveras River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 576, 87th Congress, and adopted and authorized by the act of Congress approved Octob…

The project for flood protection on the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester, Plumas County, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document No. 314, 90th Congress, and adopted and authorized by th…

It is the intention of the Legislature that, if a feasible plan can be found which will provide adequate flood control in the upper Sacramento Valley without the necessity of constructing a dam across the Sacramento River at the Table Mountain site, or any other site in the same …

The project for flood protection on the Sacramento River is further adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 103, 86th Congress, and as modified by the act of Congress, Public Law 86-645, 86t…

If for mining purposes the application shall state the nature and location of the mines to be served and the methods of supplying and utilizing the water. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

The plan of improvement for flood protection on various streams in the Merced County Stream Group in the San Joaquin Valley is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 473, Seventy-eighth Congress…

The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Lower San Joaquin River and tributaries, including Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers, is adopted and authorized in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Flood Control Committee Document Nu…

The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Calaveras River and Littlejohn Creek and tributaries is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 545, Seventy-eighth Congres…

The plan of improvement on the Calaveras River and Littlejohn Creek includes the enlargement of channels of Littlejohn Creek below the Farmington Dam as subsequently approved by letter of the Chief of Engineers dated November 12, 1951, at an additional estimated cost to the State…

The project for the Fresno County Stream Group for flood control is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 845, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, at an estimated cost to the State of on…

The City and County of San Francisco, the Modesto Irrigation District, and the Turlock Irrigation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that the local cooperation required by Section 3 of the act of Congress approved December 22, 1944 (Public, Number…

The City and County of San Francisco, the Modesto Irrigation District, and the Turlock Irrigation District, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the plans and projects within the watershed of the Tuolumne River, referred to in Section 12651, except insofar as the…

The project for flood protection on Middle Creek, California, is hereby authorized and adopted substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document numbered 367, Eighty-first Congress, and adopted and authorized by the act of Congress ap…

The Reclamation Board is authorized to provide any assurances to the Secretary of the Army which may be required in connection with the accomplishment of emergency repair work under Public Law 99, 84th Congress, 1st Session, approved June 28, 1955, or any acts amending or adding …

The Reclamation Board is authorized to provide any assurances to the Secretary of the Army which may be required in connection with the accomplishment of flood control or clearing work on the channel of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries, pursuant to Sect…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and this chapter, the Reclamation Board shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by Section 3 of the act of Congress approved December 22, 194…

Except as otherwise provided in Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, the Reclamation Board, in conjunction with the War Department, shall execute the plans and projects referred to in Section 12657 and exercise all powers granted to it in Part 4, Division 5, of this code. The Reclamati…

The project for the Folsom Reservoir on the American River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 649, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, with such modifications as in the discretion of the Secretary of War …

If for storage in a reservoir the application shall state the height of dam, the capacity of reservoir, and the use to be made of the impounded waters, except that for storage underground these additional requirements as to height of dam and capacity of reservoir shall be given a…

The project for the Isabella Reservoir on the Kern River for flood control and other purposes in the San Joaquin Valley is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated January 26, 1944, contained in Hous…

The plan for the Terminus and Success Reservoirs on the Kaweah and Tule Rivers for flood control and other purposes in the San Joaquin Valley is adopted and authorized in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Flood Control Committee Document Numbered 1,…

(a) The project for flood control on the Tule River, Success Reservoir Enlargement Project, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, in the report “Tule River Basin Inves…

(a) The project for flood control on the Kaweah River, Terminus Dam, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in the report “Kaweah River Basin Investigation Feasibility Study, California,” dated December 23, 1996, …

The project for flood control and other purposes for the Kings River and Tulare Lake Basin is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Number 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, as adopted and …

The Kings River Conservation District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation, required by the act of Congress approved December 22, 1944 (Public Law 78-534, the “Flood Control Act of 1944”), as modified by Design Memorandum No. …

The Kings River Conservation District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall execute the plan of improvement for flood control referred to in Section 12662 and exercise all powers granted to it in the Kings River Conservation District Act (Chapter 931, Statutes of…

The plan of improvement for flood control and water conservation on Cache Creek, including Clear Lake, in Yolo and Lake Counties, is hereby adopted and authorized generally in accordance with the recommendations relating thereto contained in the interim report of the Department o…

The project for the Beach-Stone Lake Unit of the Morrison Creek Stream Group Flood Control Project is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the plans developed by the County of Sacramento at such estimated cost to the state as may be appropriated for state coope…

With respect to the project authorized in Section 12664, the County of Sacramento shall acquire the lands, easements, and rights-of-way, even though the project report has not been submitted by the Secretary of the Army or other authorized official to the Congress for project aut…

The project for flood protection on the streams in the vicinity of Fairfield, California, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document No. 91-159, 91st Congress, First Session, and adopted and authorize…

The project for flood control known as the Merced County Streams Project is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated November 25, 1970, and adopted and authorized by the Act of Congress approved Dece…

(a) The project for flood control on the San Joaquin River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with P.L. 98-63, at a federal cost of approximately eight million dollars ($8,000,000), for the accomplishment of selective clearing and snagging work in the San Joaqu…

The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes on the Fresno County Stream Group identified as the Redbank-Fancher Creeks Flood Control Project, including the Redbank Creek Detention Basin, is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recomm…

The Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District may, in lieu of the Reclamation Board, give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation required by House Document Numbered 98-147 will be furnished in connection with the project for flood control…

The Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, may, in lieu of the Reclamation Board, execute the plans and project referred to in Section 12669 and may make modifications and amendments to the plans as may be necessary to execute …