Ventura County Municipal Code Ch. 7 Protection of Flood Control Facilities

It is unlawful for any person to damage, destroy, interfere with or use in any manner whatsoever any levee, piling, embankment, channel, dam, reservoir, rain or stream gauge, telephone line or other stream protection or flood control structure constructed, operated or maintained by any public entity unless written permission has first been obtained from a duly authorized agent of that entity.

It is unlawful for any person to place, construct or maintain any structure in or upon, or excavate, quarry, drill or dig in any land over or in which any public entity has an easement of record for flood control or drainage purposes unless written permission has first been obtained from a duly authorized agent of that entity.

It is unlawful for any person to cause water to flow onto or upon any land over which the County has an easement for road or highway purposes unless written permission so to do has first been obtained from the Ventura County Director of Public Works.

It is unlawful for any person to excavate, quarry, drill or dig in the channel or bed of any flood channel designated by this Chapter unless written permission so to do has first been obtained from the Ventura County Director of Public Works, or such excavation is permitted according to the terms of any special use permit granted for any lot or parcel pursuant to this Division.

It is unlawful for any person to place, construct or maintain in the channel or bed of any flood channel designated by this Chapter any wires, fence, building, dirt, rock, gravel, refuse, rubbish or any other matter, structure or obstruction which does or may impede, retard, alter or change the direction of the flow of any water in such channel, bed, drainage ditch, watercourse or conduit, or which does or may collect or catch debris carried by such water, unless written permission so to do has first been obtained from the Ventura County Director of Public Works, or such excavation is permitted according to the terms of any special use permit granted for any lot or parcel pursuant to this Division.

It is unlawful for any person to assume habitation within the design flow area of any flood channel designated by this Chapter.

The following channels within Ventura County are designated flood channels for the purpose of this Chapter:

a. The Santa Clara River from Ventura Road (Sta. 213+09) to South Mountain (Sta. 491+75).

b. Revolon Slough from Mugu Lagoon to a point 1900 feet northerly of Sturgis Road (end of Revolon Project).

c. Beardsley Wash from a point 1900 feet northerly of Sturgis Road to a point 1700 feet southwesterly of Wright Road.

d. Nyeland Drain from the confluence with Beardsley Wash to Santa Clara Avenue.

e. Las Posas Estates Drain from the confluence with Beardsley Wash to a point 1920 feet southeasterly.

f. Santa Clara Drain from the confluence with Beardsley Wash to Los Angeles Avenue.

g. Wright Road Drain from the confluence with Santa Clara Drain to a point 433 feet southeasterly.

h. Los Angeles Avenue Drain from the confluence with Santa Clara Drain to North Clubhouse Drive.

i. Ferro Debris Basin located about 2000 feet northerly of Los Angeles Avenue from a point about 800 feet west of Santa Clara Avenue.

j. Las Posas Debris Dam No. 2 located east of the junction of Ramona Place and Avocado Place in the Las Posas Hills area.

k. Ramona Place Debris Dam located west of the junction of Ramona Place and Avocado Place in the Las Posas Hills area.

l. One grade stabilization structure and allied rights-of-way on Beardsley Wash located between completed structure B7d1.3 and B7d1.5 as identified by the Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service.

m. Three grade stabilization structures and allied rights-of-way on Milligan Barranca located between Los Angeles Avenue and La Loma Avenue.

n. Sespe Creek from State Highway 126 upstream to a point approximately 4700 feet upstream of the Southern Pacific Railroad Crossing of Sespe Creek.

(Add. Ord. 3564—9/29/81—Am. Ord. 3581—2/2/82)

Section 8706 of the Ventura Ordinance Code designates various flood channels within the Ventura County Flood Control District for the purposes of this Chapter. Said channels, except the channel described in subsection (a) of Section 8706, are further described on those certain maps or plats approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Ventura County and on file in the Public Works Agency, County Surveyor's office, as documents numbered Y-2-393 through Y-2-399 and Y-2-1486.

(Am. Ord. 3564—9/29/81)