Section 9611 Of Chapter 2. Plan Development From California Water Code >> Division 5. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 2.
9611
. The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Flood Management System
comprises all of the following:
(a) The facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control as that plan
may be amended pursuant to this part.
(b) Any existing dam, levee, or other flood management facility
that is not part of the State Plan of Flood Control if the board
determines, upon recommendation of the department, that the facility
does one or more of the following:
(1) Provides significant systemwide benefits for managing flood
risks within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.
(2) Protects urban areas within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.
(c) Upon completion of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan
pursuant to this part, the department may identify and propose to the
board additional structural and nonstructural facilities that may
become facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control, consistent with
the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan. The board may add those
facilities to the State Plan of Flood Control based on a
determination showing how the facility accomplishes the purposes
identified in subdivision (b).
(d) For the purposes of subdivision (c), facilities that may
become facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control include
bypasses, floodway corridors, flood plain storage, or other projects
that expand the capacity of the flood protection system in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley to provide flood protection.