Section 8126 Of Article 4. Improvement Of Non-navigable Streams From California Water Code >> Division 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 4.

. The board of supervisors may provide for widening, deepening, straightening, removing obstructions from, and otherwise improving non-navigable streams the overflow of which interferes with highways, and for protecting the banks and adjacent lands from overflow of non-navigable streams.