States and local governments establish water management departments
to oversee the drainage of surface water and the reclamation of wetlands,
swamplands, overflowed lands and tidal marshes and flood prevention and
the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water. Some
of the duties of water management include:
- To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to
be constructed, straightened, widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse;
- To construct for the purposes of flood prevention or the conservation,
development, utilization or disposal of water works of improvement, including
levees, embankments, floodwater retarding structures, water storage structures,
outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods,
providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet, swamp or overflowed
lands and other related works of improvement that will carry out the purposes
of this article; and
- To provide maintenance for such installations.
