Floodwaters definition
Floodwaters means water in a stream which is over and above the average flow.
Floodwaters means those waters which temporarily inundate normally dry areas adjoining a watercourse. This inundation results from an overflow of the watercourse caused by excessive amounts of rainfall or snowmelt which exceed its capacity.
Floodwaters means a temporary and erosive overflow of waters on lands not normally covered by water which occurred after January 1, 1975.
Examples of Floodwaters in a sentence
Occasionally, during wet years, DWR accepts floodwater from the Kern River into the California Aqueduct through the Kern River-California Aqueduct Intertie under an agreement entitled Agreement among the State of California, ▇▇▇▇ County Water Agency, and the Kern River Interests for Diversions of Floodwaters through the Kern River-California Aqueduct Intertie, dated November 18, 1975.