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Cal. WAT § 8126

This is the official text of Cal. WAT § 8126, part of California’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.

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Official statutory text

The board of supervisors may provide for widening, deepening, straightening, removing obstructions from, and otherwise improving non-navigable streams the overflow of which interferes with highways, and for protecting the banks and adjacent lands from overflow of non-navigable streams.

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