Article 2. Construction of California Water Code >> Division 6. >> Part 4.5. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 2.

The department may prepare detailed plans and specifications for the improvement of the levees or levee segments specified in Section 12225.

The department may proceed immediately with the improvement of a pilot levee project which the department determines, after a public hearing, is in critical need of improvement and which is highly susceptible to failure in the absence of such immediate improvement. Prior to commencing such improvement, the department shall enter into an agreement with a local agency whereby the local agency will bear at least 20 percent of the cost of the improvement.