California Code of Regulations
Title 23 - Waters
Division 1 - Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Chapter 1 - Organization, Powers and Standards
Article 8 - Standards
Section 112 - Streams Regulated and Nonpermissible Work Periods

Universal Citation: 23 CA Code of Regs 112

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) The board requires applications to be filed for all proposed encroachments within the floodways under its jurisdiction (identified in Table 8.1) and on levees adjacent thereto, on any stream which may affect those floodways.

(b) Banks, levees, and channels of floodways along any stream, its tributaries, or distributaries may not be excavated, cut, filled, obstructed, or left to remain excavated during the flood season.

(1) The flood seasons for the various floodways are shown in Table 8.1.

(2) The board, at the prior written request of the applicant, may allow work to be done during flood season within the floodway, provided that, in the judgment of the board, forecasts for weather and river conditions are favorable.

(c) The following definitions apply to this section:

(1) Bank. "Bank" means the ground bordering a river, stream, lake, or sea, or forming the edge of a cut or hollow.

1. New section and table 8.1 filed 9-30-96; operative 10-30-96 (Register 96, No. 40).
2. Amendment of table 8.1 filed 12-1-2009; operative 12-31-2009 (Register 2009, No. 49).

Note: Authority cited: Section 8571, Water Code. Reference: Sections 8608, 8609 and 8710, Water Code.

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