California Water Code

§ 8450

WAT § 8450Div. 5 · Part 2 · Ch. 5

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares as follows:

(a)Although the levees of flood control projects in this state have in the past been considered to be single-purpose, flood control features, many of these projects receive heavy nonlocal usage for recreation, transportation, and other purposes for which the retention and maintenance of vegetative cover is desirable.

(b)Construction and maintenance practices have been developed over the past several decades which were designed to minimize costs while still furnishing the required degree of flood control. These practices in many instances resulted in “bare” levees, devoid of any vegetative cover which might interfere with local maintenance, levee inspection, or flood fighting.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 995.