SECTIONS 8402 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 8402

8402. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
definitions apply throughout this chapter:
(a) "Department" means Department of Water Resources.
(b) "Board" means the State Reclamation Board.
(c) Wherever the words "department or board" or "department and
board" are used together in this chapter they shall mean board as to
any area within a project which by law is under the jurisdiction of
the State Reclamation Board, and the department in all areas of the
state outside these areas.
(d) "Public agency" means any city, city and county, county, or
district organized, existing, and acting pursuant to the laws of this
state.
(e) "Design flood" means the selected flood against which
protection is provided, or eventually will be provided, by means of
flood protective or control works. When a federal survey has been
authorized the design flood will be determined by the appropriate
federal agency and in all other cases it will be determined by the
responsible local agency. It is the basis for design and operation of
a particular project after full consideration of flood
characteristics, frequencies, and potentials and economic and other
practical considerations.
(f) "Designated floodway" means the channel of a stream and that
portion of the adjoining flood plain required to reasonably provide
for the construction of a project for passage of the design flood
including the lands necessary for construction of project levees.
(g) "Restrictive zone" means the portion of the natural floodway
between the limits of the designated floodway and the limits of the
flood plain where inundation may occur but where depths and
velocities are generally low.