N.Y. County Law § 299-m: County small watershed protection districts

§ 299-m. County small watershed protection districts. The board of

supervisors of each county may establish or extend county small

watershed protection districts in the manner hereinafter provided, for

the purpose of undertaking, constructing and maintaining projects and

works of improvement for flood prevention, land treatment, and for the

conservation, development, disposal and utilization of water including

but not limited to use for irrigation in watershed and sub-watershed

areas as provided for in the federal act approved August four, nineteen

hundred fifty-four, and known as public law five hundred sixty-six, and

as the "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act", and all acts

amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and which projects and

works of improvement have been or may be approved by the federal

government and for which federal financial and other forms of assistance

shall be made available.