Tex. Water Code § 56.022
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 56.022, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 56.022. SURVEY AND PRELIMINARY PLANS.
Official statutory text
(a) Within the time prescribed by the commissioners court, the engineer shall make a careful survey of the land proposed to be drained and protected by levees. For the purposes of the survey, the engineer may go on land located inside or outside the district, including land located in a different county.
(b) The engineer shall obtain information regarding land and outlets inside the proposed district from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and from other sources, and he shall cooperate with the commission in the discharge of its duties.
(c) The engineer shall use the survey to make preliminary plans:
(1) locating approximately the necessary canals, drains, ditches, laterals, and levees;
(2) designating the streams and bayous necessary to be cleaned, deepened, and straightened;
(3) estimating the cost in detail of each contemplated improvement; and
(4) estimating the probable annual cost of maintaining the improvements.
(d) The engineer shall ascertain and procure proper and necessary outlets for the proposed canals, drains, and ditches necessary to drain the district.
(e) The engineer shall immediately make a report of his work to the commissioners court.
(b) The engineer shall obtain information regarding land and outlets inside the proposed district from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and from other sources, and he shall cooperate with the commission in the discharge of its duties.
(c) The engineer shall use the survey to make preliminary plans:
(1) locating approximately the necessary canals, drains, ditches, laterals, and levees;
(2) designating the streams and bayous necessary to be cleaned, deepened, and straightened;
(3) estimating the cost in detail of each contemplated improvement; and
(4) estimating the probable annual cost of maintaining the improvements.
(d) The engineer shall ascertain and procure proper and necessary outlets for the proposed canals, drains, and ditches necessary to drain the district.
(e) The engineer shall immediately make a report of his work to the commissioners court.
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