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California Reclamation Districts are legal subdivisions within California's Central Valley that are responsible for managing and maintaining the levees, fresh water channels, or sloughs (pronounced slü), [1] canals, pumps, and other flood protection structures in the area. Each is run autonomously and is run by an elected board and funded with ...
However, if the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, [1] which is responsible for monitoring California reclamation districts, determines that a local district is not adequately maintaining its levee system, the Board has the power to authorize the California Department of Water Resources to establish a maintenance area and essentially take ...
On November 25, 1914, Reclamation District 1607 was established to handle drainage, irrigation, and levee maintenance. [2] The island was subdivided into several parcels, upon which landowners pay assessments to fund District operations. [3] The district is governed by a five-member Board of Trustees, elected by the landowners to serve 4-year ...
Local reclamation districts, many of them controlled by Boswell, worked to contain floodwater to the fewest acres possible, to minimize crop losses and dampen the economic hit to the broader ...
Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to review how vulnerable the Bureau of Reclamation is to water theft following a Los Angeles Times report on a long-running ...
California Reclamation Districts; Canebrake Canyon, California; ... Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District;
The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California. The delta is formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and lies just east of where the rivers enter Suisun Bay , which flows into San Francisco ...
Reclamation District 800, a California Reclamation District, is responsible for managing a series of levees along the Cosumnes River stretching from the edge of the community of Rancho Murieta to just upstream of California State Route 99.