Category D: Water Control Facilities
Water control facilities are those facilities built for the following purposes:
- Channel alignment
- Recreation
- Navigation
- Land reclamation
- Irrigation
- Maintenance of fish and wildlife habitat
- Interior drainage
- Erosion prevention
- Flood control
- Storm water management
They include:
- Dams and reservoirs
- Levees and floodwalls
- Lined and unlined engineered drainage channels
- Canals
- Aqueducts
- Sediment and debris basins
- Storm water retention and detention basins
- Coastal shoreline protective devices
- Irrigation facilities
- Pumping facilities
- Navigational waterways and shipping channels
Category D: Channels, Basins, and Reservoirs (1 of 2)
Restoring the pre-disaster carrying or storage capacity of engineered channels, debris and sediment basins, storm water detention and retention basins, and reservoirs may be eligible, but only if the Applicant provides documentation to establish:
- The pre-disaster capacity of the facility; and
- That the Applicant maintains the facility on a regular schedule.
If the Applicant chooses to remove non-incident-related material along with that deposited as a result of the incident, the project is considered an Improved Project.
Category D: Channels, Basins, and Reservoirs (2 of 2)
Flood Control Works:
Flood control works are those structures such as levees, flood walls, flood control channels, and water control structures designed and constructed to have appreciable effects in preventing damage by irregular and unusual rises in water levels.
Generally, flood control works are under the authority of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or Natural Resources Conservation Service and restoration of damaged flood control works under the authority of another Federal agency is not eligible.
Secondary levees riverward of a primary levee are ineligible, unless the secondary levee protects human life.
