Flood control works definition
Flood control works means physical works such as dams, levees, floodwalls, and channel improvements or relocations undertaken to provide moderate to high degree of flood protection to existing or proposed structures or land uses.
Flood control works means all development on rivers and streams designed to retard bank erosion, to reduce flooding of adjacent lands, to control or divert stream flow, or to create a reservoir, including but not limited to revetments, dikes, levees, channelization, dams, vegetative stabilization, weirs, flood and tidal gates. Excluded are water pump apparatus.
Flood control works means structures including earthworks, embankments and levees developed for flood control purposes that are changing flow patterns or blocking flows from reaching wetlands. Floodplain Harvesting Measurement Policy: means a robust, practical and effective measurement and compliance framework that enables better accounting and equitable sharing of limited water resources. Regulation of floodplain harvesting in accordance with the Floodplain Harvesting Measurement Policy will be the responsibility of the Natural Resources Access Regulator with WaterNSW responsible for the accounting and billing associated with floodplain harvesting. The Floodplain Harvesting Measurement Policy was originally prepared as a Monitoring and Auditing Strategy.
More Definitions of Flood control works
Flood control works means all structures and works designed to reduce flooding of adjacent lands, including but not limited to dikes, levees, channelization, dams, weirs, and flood gates. Excluded are water pump facilities. Flood hazard reduction may also include techniques of floodplain, river basin and watershed management applied alone or in combination with structural measures.
Flood control works means structures including earthworks, embankments and levees developed for flood control purposes that are changing flow patterns or blocking flows from reaching wetlands.
Flood control works means the system comprised of levees, flood walls, relief