(a)To carry out this chapter, the board has
jurisdiction to authorize projects of flood control and prevention over
all watercourses, and property affected by these projects, within the
flood control district and in or along any watercourse in any adjacent
county that is a tributary to any watercourse in the district.
(b)In carrying out such a project, the board has the following
powers:
(1)To construct and maintain levees, dikes, retaining walls, dams,
reservoirs, drains, and all other improvements in or along any
watercourse designed to prevent damage and injury through
floods and to conserve water resources.
(2)To provide for the disposal of excess water from any reservoir
on such terms as the board considers best, so long as this does not
impair the function of flood prevention pro
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(a) To carry out this chapter, the board has
jurisdiction to authorize projects of flood control and prevention over
all watercourses, and property affected by these projects, within the
flood control district and in or along any watercourse in any adjacent
county that is a tributary to any watercourse in the district.
(b) In carrying out such a project, the board has the following
powers:
(1) To construct and maintain levees, dikes, retaining walls, dams,
reservoirs, drains, and all other improvements in or along any
watercourse designed to prevent damage and injury through
floods and to conserve water resources.
(2) To provide for the disposal of excess water from any reservoir
on such terms as the board considers best, so long as this does not
impair the function of flood prevention provided by the
improvements.
(3) To construct, reconstruct, repair, relocate, widen, or resurface
any public way connected with such a project.
(4) To remove obstructions in, to dredge or control, to straighten,
or to change the channel of any watercourse.
(5) To reconstruct any new public structure, or any new public
bridge or bridges; or to alter, relocate, remove or require the
removal of, repair, lengthen, widen, or reconstruct any public
structure, or any public bridge or bridges, designed or used for
vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and already built and located,
whether originally built by a municipal corporation or any other
person, across any watercourse.
(6) To regulate and establish channel, bank, and harbor lines on
watercourses; to remove or to require to be removed any
obstruction or encroachment in, beneath, above, along, or beyond
channel, bank, and harbor lines; and to prevent any future
obstructions or encroachments beyond these lines by dumping or
filling with any material or in any other manner.
(7) To regulate the manner in which all sewers, drains, conduits,
viaducts, aqueducts, cables, power lines, and pipelines of any
description crossing the bed of any watercourse, or along its
banks, or carried across, over, or under it on any bridge, trestle,
support, or other structure, shall be located or relocated, replaced,
altered, repaired, constructed, reconstructed, lengthened,
widened, or removed, whether already constructed or proposed to
be constructed or reconstructed by a municipal corporation or any
other person.
(8) To regulate the general manner of construction of all
temporary or permanent bridges, dikes, moorings, landings, dams,
and spillways over, along, or in any watercourses proposed to be
constructed or reconstructed by a municipal corporation or any
other person.
(9) To regulate the removal by any persons of sand and gravel
from watercourses and to establish the distance from bridges and
other structures crossing them, and also the uniform grade lines
to which sand and gravel may be excavated by any persons.
(10) To regulate the depth, waterway, height, alignment, location,
and general manner of construction, reconstruction, and repair of
any railroad bridge and of any person crossing over any
watercourses or affected by carrying out of projects.
(11) To regulate the general manner of locating, relocating,
constructing, reconstructing, altering, repairing, lengthening,
widening, raising, and aligning any private bridge, including all
its piers, abutments, and supports.
(12) To regulate and order that any of the matters described in this
subsection shall be done by the person owning or controlling
them, in carrying out projects, all subject to supervision and
approval by the board.
(13) To cooperate with any department or agency of the federal
government, and with any department or agency of the state, that
is established for the purpose of developing a comprehensive plan
or program for the protection of life and property from floods or
flood hazards.
(c) A project for flood control may not be carried out until it is
submitted to and approved by the department of natural resources of
the state.
As added by Acts 1982, P.L.77, SEC.24.