California

Water Code

10,139 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 1227.1 — (a) To obtain the priority of right set forth in Section 1227, any agency of the United States shall submit to the board, on or before July 1, 1984, a statement for each water use initiated under clai
• § 1227.2 — (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), any use for which a statement is submitted to the board pursuant to Section 1227.
• § 1227.3 — This article does not apply to uses involving the appropriation of water by any person, including any agency of the United States, pursuant to the Federal Reclamation Law, as amended or supplemented,
• § 1227.4 — The board may, after following procedures set forth in Sections 1675 to 1675.
• § 1228 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Rights Permitting Reform Act of 1988.
• § 1228.1 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to provide a timely, efficient, and economic procedure for the acquisition of rights to appropriate water for a small domestic
• § 1228.2 — (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), a person may obtain a right to appropriate water for a small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond use upon first registering the use with the board an
• § 1228.3 — (a) Registration of water use pursuant to this article shall be made upon a form prescribed by the board.
• § 1228.4 — (a) Any completed registration of water use gives to the registrant a priority of right as of the date of completed registration to take and use the amount of water ultimately applied with due diligen
• § 1228.5 — (a) Registration of a small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond use pursuant to this article shall be renewed prior to the expiration of each five-year period following completed regist
• § 1228.6 — (a) The board shall establish, and may from time to time revise, reasonable general conditions to which all appropriations made pursuant to this article shall be subject.
• § 1228.7 — (a) A registrant may change the point of diversion or place of use by delivering to the board an amended registration form in accordance with Section 1228.
• § 1229 — (a) The board is not required to adopt general conditions for small irrigation use pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1228.
• § 1229.1 — (a) This article does not apply to those stream segments for which the Director of Fish and Wildlife establishes proposed streamflow requirements pursuant to Section 10002 of the Public Resources Code
• § 123 — Except as provided in Section 179, the department succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters pertaining to water or dams vested i
• § 1230 — 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 a
• § 12300 — (a) The Delta Flood Protection Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• § 12301 — The Delta Flood Protection Fund is hereby abolished on July 1, 2010, and all unencumbered moneys in the fund are transferred to the General Fund.
• § 12303 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, subject to subdivision (b) of Section 12929.
• § 12306 — This chapter applies to special flood control projects subject to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12310) and to the payment of delta levee subventions under Part 9 (commencing with Section 12980).
• § 12306.5 — The Resources Agency shall supervise the implementation of the programs subject to this chapter.
• § 12307 — (a) The Resources Agency, the department, the Reclamation Board, and the Department of Fish and Game shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to coordinate the implementation of the programs sub
• § 1231 — (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
• § 12310 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Local public agency” means a reclamation district or levee district or other public agency responsible for the maintenanc
• § 12311 — (a) The department shall develop and implement a program of flood control projects on Bethel, Bradford, Holland, Hotchkiss, Jersey, Sherman, Twitchell, and Webb Islands, and at other locations in the
• § 12312 — The department may expend any moneys available to it pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 12300 or any moneys available from other sources of funding appropriated by the Legislature
• § 12313 — (a) The department shall develop a list of areas where flood control work is needed to protect public facilities or provide public benefits.
• § 12314 — (a) Guided by the approved priority list developed pursuant to Section 12313, the department shall develop project plans to accomplish the needed flood protection work in cooperation with the local pu
• § 12315 — Projects shall be undertaken and completed in accordance with the approved project plans.
• § 12316 — In addition to any obligations assumed under an agreement with the department and to the extent consistent with that agreement, the local public agency shall do all of the following: (a) Provide const
• § 12318 — (a) The Resources Agency may establish a team of federal, state, and local agencies, and other persons or entities with a stake in finding a solution to the problems of the delta levees, to develop re
• § 124 — Except to the extent inconsistent with the provisions of this code, the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code shall govern and apply
• § 1240 — The appropriation must be for some useful or beneficial purpose, and when the appropriator or his successor in interest ceases to use it for such a purpose the right ceases.
• § 12400 — This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Open and Transparent Water Data Act.
• § 12401 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The recent drought reveals that California needs to integrate existing water and ecological data into an authoritative open-access platform
• § 12402 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: (a) “Department” means the Department of Water Resources.
• § 12405 — The department, the state board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife shall coordinate and integrate existing water and ecological data from local, state, and federal agencies.
• § 12406 — (a) The department, in consultation with the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the state board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, shall develop protocols for data sharing, documentat
• § 1241 — If the person entitled to the use of water fails to use beneficially all or any part of the water claimed by him or her, for which a right of use has vested, for the purpose for which it was appropria
• § 1241.6 — If water appropriated for irrigation purposes is not used by reason of compliance with crop control or soil conservation contracts with the United States, and in other cases of hardship as the board m
• § 12410 — (a) The department, in consultation with the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the state board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, shall create, operate, and maintain a statewide inte
• § 12415 — The statewide integrated water data platform created pursuant to Section 12410 shall, at a minimum, do all of the following: (a) Integrate existing water and ecological data information from multiple
• § 1242 — The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the wat
• § 1242.1 — The diversion of floodflows for groundwater recharge shall not require an appropriative water right if all of the following conditions are met: (a) (1) A local or regional agency that has adopted a lo
• § 1242.2 — (a) The board shall post on its internet website all reports received pursuant to Section 1242.
• § 1242.3 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) California’s central valley has one of the highest flood risks in the United States.
• § 1242.5 — The board, subject to the provisions of Section 100 and whenever it is in the public interest, may approve appropriation by storage of water to be released for the purpose of protecting or enhancing t
• § 12420 — (a) The Water Data Administration Fund is hereby created.
• § 1243 — (a) The use of water for recreation and preservation and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources is a beneficial use of water.
• § 1243.5 — In determining the amount of water available for appropriation, the board shall take into account, whenever it is in the public interest, the amounts of water needed to remain in the source for protec
• § 1244 — The sale, lease, exchange, or transfer of water or water rights, in itself, shall not constitute evidence of waste or unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion
• § 1245 — Every municipal corporation of this State, and every person, firm or corporation engaged in supplying water to any municipal corporations for municipal, domestic or other uses, who enters any watershe
• § 1246 — For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of any damage claimed to have been suffered or sustained by reason of any of the acts or things mentioned in Section 1245, every municipal corporation and ev
• § 1247 — Nothing in this article shall confer the right to recover damages resulting directly or indirectly by reason of the construction, operation or maintenance of any conduit, pipe line, canal, ditch, aque
• § 1248 — This article shall be liberally construed.
• § 125 — For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor in the manner he deems necessary to segregate and conduct the work of the department pro
• § 1250 — The board shall consider and act upon all applications for permits to appropriate water and shall do all things required or proper relating to such applications.
• § 1250.5 — The board shall consider and act upon all applications for permits to appropriate water which propose, as a primary purpose of the application, the development of small hydroelectric energy facilities
• § 12500 — The definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part only.
• § 12501 — “Board” means the Colorado River Board of California.
• § 12502 — “Commissioner” means the Colorado River Commissioner.
• § 12503 — “Fund” means the Colorado River Fund.
• § 1251 — The board shall make such investigations of the water resources of the State as may be necessary for the purpose of securing information needed in connection with applications for appropriations of wa
• § 12510 — There is in the state government, in the Resources Agency, the Colorado River Board of California.
• § 12511 — The board consists of eight members appointed by the Governor as provided in this chapter, two of whom shall be public members appointed by the Governor, and the Director of Water Resources and the Di
• § 12512 — The governing bodies of the San Diego County Water Authority, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley Water District, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
• § 12513 — Each member of the board, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses actually and necessarily incurred in t
• § 12514 — (a) The board shall determine, by majority vote, where to maintain its office and shall hold meetings at that office or elsewhere upon call of the chairman or three members of the board.
• § 12515 — All of the records of the board or copies of them shall be maintained at its office.
• § 12516 — The board shall be subject to the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
• § 12517 — The board shall adopt such rules or procedure as may be required for the orderly disposition of its business and such regulations as may be necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this part.
• § 12518 — The board shall make such reports and recommendations to the Governor as he requires or as the board deems proper.
• § 12519 — Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, the board may hold executive sessions in conjunction with any regular or special meeting and maintain confidential information and recor
• § 1252 — Any person may apply for and secure from the board, in conformity with this part and in conformity with reasonable rules and regulations adopted from time to time by it, a permit for any unappropriate
• § 1252.1 — An appropriation of water of any stream or other source of water under this part does not confer authority upon the appropriator to prevent or interfere with soil conservation practices above the poin
• § 1252.5 — All rights and privileges conferred by this part upon any person in relation to the appropriation of water are likewise conferred upon the United States, the State, and any entity or organization capa
• § 12525 — The board shall elect from among its members, other than the Director of Water Resources or the Director of Fish and Game or their designees, a chairman who is ex officio the “Colorado River Commissio
• § 12526 — The commissioner shall serve without compensation, but he shall be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of his duties.
• § 12527 — The commissioner shall perform the duties imposed upon him by this chapter under the direction of the board.
• § 12528 — The commissioner shall consult and advise with the board in exercising the powers and performing the duties enumerated in this chapter and make such reports and recommendations as he deems proper or a
• § 12529 — The commissioner shall exercise on behalf of the State every right and power granted to the State or to any representative of it by Section 16 of the act of Congress designated the “Boulder Canyon Pro
• § 1253 — The board shall allow the appropriation for beneficial purposes of unappropriated water under such terms and conditions as in its judgment will best develop, conserve, and utilize in the public intere
• § 12530 — The commissioner shall investigate past, present, and potential uses of the water of the Colorado River System within and without the State.
• § 12531 — The commissioner shall investigate, coordinate, collate, and preserve information, facts, and data bearing upon the claims of all States and of all public or private agencies within and without the St
• § 12532 — The commissioner shall confer with representatives of other States in the Colorado River basin, representatives of the United States, and others concerning problems and measures relating to the develo
• § 12533 — The commissioner shall do and perform all other things deemed necessary or expedient to carry out the purposes of this part.
• § 1254 — In acting upon applications to appropriate water the board shall be guided by the policy that domestic use is the highest use and irrigation is the next highest use of water.
• § 12540 — From a list of not less than two persons submitted to it by the commissioner, the board shall appoint an executive director, whose duties shall be as required by the commissioner and by the board.
• § 12541 — The board may fix the compensation of the executive director.
• § 1255 — The board shall reject an application when in its judgment the proposed appropriation would not best conserve the public interest.
• § 12550 — All irrigation districts, county water districts, municipal water districts, metropolitan water districts, county water authorities, water conservation districts, and flood control districts, may make
• § 12551 — The board may accept any and all contributions to the fund.
• § 12552 — All contributions accepted by the board shall be deposited by it in the State Treasury to the credit of the fund.
• § 12553 — The State Controller shall draw warrants upon the fund from time to time upon demand of the commissioner, and the State Treasurer shall pay the warrants.
• § 1256 — In determining public interest under Sections 1253 and 1255, the board shall give consideration to any general or co-ordinated plan looking toward the control, protection, development, utilization, an
• § 12560 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Account” means the Colorado River Management Account created pursuant to
• § 12561 — There is hereby created the Colorado River Management Account in the General Fund.
• § 12562 — (a) (1) In furtherance of implementing and achieving the goals of the “California Plan,” the sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) in the account shall be used by the director to finance a
• § 12563 — If the contingencies for a transfer to the San Diego County Water Authority of the conserved water under the water transfer agreement entered into by the Imperial Irrigation District and the San Diego
• § 12564 — Nothing in the contract anticipated by the memorandum of understanding entered into on August 12, 1998, by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the San Diego County Water Authori
• § 12565 — The two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) made available to the director pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 12562 may be expended solely for the lining of the All American Canal and the Coach
• § 1257 — In acting upon application to appropriate water, the board shall consider the relative benefit to be derived from (1) all beneficial uses of the water concerned including, but not limited to, use for
• § 1257.5 — The board, in acting on applications to appropriate water, shall consider streamflow requirements proposed for fish and wildlife purposes pursuant to Sections 10001 and 10002 of the Public Resources C
• § 12570 — Chapters 1 and 2 of this part shall be known and may be cited as “The State Water Resources Law of 1945.
• § 12571 — The definitions in this article govern the construction of this part.
• § 12573 — “Lands, easements and rights of way” includes lands and rights or interests in lands whereon channel improvements and channel rectifications are located; lands, rights, or interests in lands necessary
• § 12578 — 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 b
• § 12579 — 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 commu
• § 1258 — In acting upon applications to appropriate water, the board shall consider water quality control plans which have been established pursuant to Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of this code,
• § 12580 — 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 an
• § 12581 — 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 indu
• § 12582 — Fish and wildlife values, both economic and recreational, shall be given consideration in any flood control or water conservation program.
• § 12582.5 — Recreational uses, such as walkways, pathways, access points and view areas, shall be given consideration in any flood control or water conservation program.
• § 12582.7 — (a) A flood management project that receives financial assistance under this chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) shall meet all of the following requirements prior to state authoriza
• § 12583 — It is the intention of the Legislature that it will be the policy of the State that the amount of financial assistance to be given by the State to each project adopted and authorized for state assista
• § 12583.1 — It is also declared to be the policy of the state that the state shall not provide financial assistance for relocation, reconstruction, or replacement of existing improvements, structures, or utilitie
• § 12584 — Notwithstanding all other provisions of Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, appropriations will be made by the State, from time to time by law, to pay for the cost of cooperation on all flood control proje
• § 12585 — In the event that the Congress after September 22, 1951, authorizes and approves projects, wherein financial assistance is required of local agencies of this State by the Federal Government, similar t
• § 12585.1 — The costs of local co-operation shall include, as to projects specifically adopted and authorized by the Congress and the Legislature, costs hereafter incurred prior, as well as subsequent, to Congres
• § 12585.10 — Section 161 does not apply to the adoption or revision of regulations, guidelines, or criteria to implement Section 12582.
• § 12585.12 — The department and the board may participate with the federal government or local agencies in the design of environmental enhancements associated with a federal flood control project, and may particip
• § 12585.2 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) of this part, and this chapter, the following policy shall apply to proj
• § 12585.3 — The local agency may receive credit against its share of the costs of lands, easements, and rights-of-way as determined in subdivisions (b) and (d) of Section 12585.
• § 12585.4 — Whenever specifically authorized by the Legislature, the department or the board may lend the local agency the funds necessary to pay the local portion of the costs of lands, easements, and rights-of-
• § 12585.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800), and this chapter, the following policy shall apply to projects authorized b
• § 12585.6 — For projects authorized by the Legislature prior to January 1, 1987, or for small flood control projects authorized by Section 12750 for which the department made the findings required by Section 1275
• § 12585.7 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639), or Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800), the following requirements apply to projects authorized by
• § 12585.8 — For all projects funded in accordance with Section 12585.
• § 12585.9 — The department or the Reclamation Board shall review flood control projects prior to authorization for the purposes of determining whether the project’s individual and cumulative hydraulic impacts are
• § 12586 — It is the intention of the Legislature that nothing in Chapters 1 and 2 of this part shall be deemed to change the policy of the State respecting that certain contract entered into between the Federal
• § 1259 — In acting upon applications to appropriate water, the board shall consider the state goal of providing a decent home and suitable living environment for every Californian.
• § 1259.2 — (a) The board shall annually prepare a written summary, in chart form, of pending applications to appropriate water in the Counties of Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, and Humboldt.
• § 1259.4 — (a) (1) On or before January 1, 2008, the board shall adopt principles and guidelines for maintaining instream flows in coastal streams from the Mattole River to San Francisco and in coastal streams e
• § 1259.6 — (a) (1) The board shall develop and adopt regulations to govern consideration of climate change effects in water availability analyses used in the board’s review of applications for water rights permi
• § 126 — There shall be one Deputy Director of Water Resources who shall be a civil executive officer and shall be appointed by the Governor and serve at the pleasure of the Governor.
• § 1260 — An application for a permit to appropriate water shall set forth all of the following: (a) The name and post office address of the applicant.
• § 12601 — The department shall establish general policies, prescribe rules and regulations for the general administration of Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, and may require such information as it deems necessary
• § 12602 — The department, or a representative authorized by the department to do so, may call, conduct or attend conferences or hearings, official or unofficial, within or without this state, or otherwise parti
• § 12603 — The department shall keep itself informed as to any activities, requirements or procedures of the United States, its departments or agencies affecting any proposed water project within the scope of Ch
• § 12604 — As to any matter involving the United States, its departments or agencies, which is within the scope of the powers and duties of the department, the department may represent the interests of the State
• § 12604.3 — In matters concerning the coordination of planning, construction, and operation of federal water development and flood control projects in the State of California with state and local projects, the Ca
• § 12606 — The department may hold hearings and conduct investigations in any part of the State.
• § 12608 — At any hearing by or on behalf of the department any county, city, state agency, including the Department of Fish and Game, public district, association, or any person affected by or interested in the
• § 12609 — As a further means of carrying out the policies defined in Sections 12578 to 12582, inclusive, the department shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Collect and file data.
• § 1261 — All applications shall be accompanied by as many copies of such maps, drawings, and other data as may be prescribed or required by the board, and such maps, drawings, and other data are part of the ap
• § 12610 — In performing the duties prescribed in Section 12609, the director, or his authorized representative, may travel either within or without the State and shall consult and cooperate with the officials a
• § 12611 — The department may cooperate with any county, city, state agency or public district on flood control and other water problems and when requested by such county, city, state agency or public district,
• § 12612 — The department has no authority to undertake the construction of flood control or other water projects provided for under Chapters 1 and 2 of this part, thereby obligating any county, city, state agen
• § 12616 — The department may conduct investigations of the water resources of the State, formulate plans for the control, conservation, protection, and utilization of such water resources, including solutions f
• § 12617 — The department, upon its own initiative, or when requested in writing by a county, city, state agency or public district, may investigate, conduct surveys and studies, prepare plans and estimates, and
• § 12617.1 — The department, in making investigations and plans for water projects and for the solution of the water problems of the state pursuant to Sections 12616 and 12617, shall include plans and recommendati
• § 12618 — The department may recommend the construction of any project, including the time for constructing it, and the amount of funds which should be allocated or appropriated to counties, cities, state agenc
• § 12619 — Reports and recommendations shall be submitted by the department to each county, city, state agency, or public district which has appeared at any hearing held pursuant to Section 12623.
• § 1262 — If for agricultural purposes the application shall give the legal subdivisions of the land and the acreage to be irrigated, as near as may be.
• § 12620 — Within 90 days from the date of submission of the report and recommendations of the department, or within such extended period as the department may grant for good cause shown, the written views and r
• § 12621 — After the expiration of the period or extended period for the submission of written views and recommendations, or prior thereto in the event all those entitled to submit written views and recommendati
• § 12622 — Investigations which form the basis of any reports and recommendations of the department shall be conducted to the extent deemed practicable by the department in such a manner as to give to any intere
• § 12623 — Prior to adoption of any report and recommendations authorized pursuant to Sections 12616 to 12622, inclusive, and Section 12626, the department shall hold a hearing or hearings pursuant to this part
• § 12624 — In making recommendation to the Legislature respecting the amount of financial assistance to be given by the State, as provided for in Sections 12616 to 12623, inclusive, and Section 12626, the depart
• § 12625 — In determining the cost of any project, damage to fish and wildlife that will probably result shall be included in the amount of the cost.
• § 12626 — Reports and recommendations made by the department shall be advisory only and the Legislature shall finally determine the priorities in building such projects and the amount of aid to each project whi
• § 12627 — It is the intention of the Legislature that the department shall investigate all phases of any proposed water project, including flood control, water conservation, domestic and irrigation use, and pow
• § 12627.3 — It is declared to be the policy of the State that the costs of solution of seepage and erosion problems which arise or will arise by reason of construction and operation of water projects should be bo
• § 12627.4 — The department, in making investigations and plans for water projects and in making recommendations thereon to the Governor and the Legislature, shall include therein consideration of seepage and eros
• § 12628 — In a multiple-type project authorized and adopted by Congress, which includes, in addition to works for flood control purposes, works and construction for other than flood control purposes, only that
• § 12629 — In a multiple-type project which includes works and construction for flood control and for other than flood control purposes, and in projects which do not include any flood control works or constructi
• § 1263 — 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
• § 12630 — Prior to recommending to the Legislature the approval for state assistance of any project, designed in whole or in part for flood control, adopted and authorized by Congress, and prior to the submissi
• § 12631 — The department, in addition to the reports and recommendations made to the Legislature as provided in Sections 12616 to 12623, inclusive, and Section 12626, may from time to time summarize the results
• § 12632 — Prior to any hearing and prior to beginning any investigation of the water problems of any specific portion of the State pursuant to Section 12616 or any investigation pursuant to Section 12617, the d
• § 12633 — Notice, to those who have filed and requested service by mail, shall be sent to the respective addresses of record at the time of mailing.
• § 12634 — Notice given as provided in Sections 12632 and 12633 shall be deemed full and sufficient notice to all parties in interest of the hearing or investigation.
• § 12634.3 — The department shall submit, prior to January 1st of each year, a report to the California Water Commission summarizing its activities, with emphasis on existing and prospective planning projects, the
• § 12639 — The works of improvement for the control, conservation and utilization of destructive flood waters and the reclamation and protection of lands that are susceptible to overflow by flood waters, which a
• § 12639.1 — The department may investigate any project adopted and authorized by the state and approved by the Congress to determine whether the project is no longer justified and whether appropriate action shoul
• § 1264 — 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.
• § 12640 — The provisions of Part 2 of this division shall be applicable to all water made available by the construction of the works of any project approved by Chapters 1 and 2 of this part.
• § 12641 — Any county, city, state agency or public district is authorized to make agreements with the United States or any of its departments or agencies obligating them to do or perform those things which are
• § 12642 — In all cases where the Federal Government does not maintain and operate projects, it is the responsibility and duty of the county, city, state agency, or public district affected to maintain and opera
• § 12643 — Prior to any local agency receiving payment or reimbursement pursuant to Section 12585.
• § 12645 — 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, a
• § 12646 — Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 12647 — (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 follow
• § 12648 — 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 adopte
• § 12648.1 — 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-fir
• § 12648.2 — 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 Eng
• § 12648.3 — 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
• § 12648.4 — 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 Docume
• § 12648.5 — 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 Docu
• § 12648.6 — 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,
• § 12648.7 — 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 Engi
• § 12649 — 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
• § 12649.1 — 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 10
• § 1265 — 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.
• § 12650 — 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 o
• § 12651 — 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
• § 12652 — 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
• § 12653 — 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
• § 12654 — 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
• § 12655 — 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 require