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Cal. WAT § 12653

This is the official text of Cal. WAT § 12653, part of California’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.

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Official statutory text

The plan of improvement on the Calaveras River and Littlejohn Creek includes the enlargement of channels of Littlejohn Creek below the Farmington Dam as subsequently approved by letter of the Chief of Engineers dated November 12, 1951, at an additional estimated cost to the State of such sum as may be available for state cooperation for that purpose in the Flood Control Emergency Fund, pursuant to written authorization of the Department of Finance for Flood Control projects, payable from the Flood Control Fund of 1946, upon approval of the general plan for such channel enlargements by, and the recommendation of, the department, or as may be otherwise appropriated for state cooperation by the Legislature, payable from the Flood Control Fund of 1946, upon approval of the general plan for such channel enlargements by, and with the recommendation of, the department.

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