'Drainage project' or 'flood control project,' or any phrase of similar import, means any natural and artificial water facilities for the collection, channeling, impoundment and disposal of rainfall, other surface and subsurface drainage waters, and storm and floodwaters, including without limitation ditches, ponds, dams, spillways, retarding basins, detention basins, lakes, reservoirs, canals, channels, levees, revetments, dikes, walls, embankments, bridges, inlets, outlets, connections, laterals, other collection lines, intercepting sewers, outfalls, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, force mains, submains, water lines, sluices, flumes, syphons, sewer lines, pipes, conduits, culverts, other transmission lines, pumping stations, gauging stations, ventilating facilities, stream gauges, rain gauges, engines, valves, pumps, meters, junction boxes, manholes, other inlet and outlet structures, bucket machines, inlet and outlet cleaners, backhoes, draglines, graders, other equipment, apparatus, fixtures, structures and buildings, flood warning service and appurtenant telephone, telegraph, radio and television apparatus and other water diversion, drainage and flood control facilities, or any fixtures, structures and buildings, flood warning service and appurtenant telephone, telegraph, radio and television apparatus and other water diversion, drainage and flood control facilities, or any combination thereof. The term includes a flood management project. (Added to NRS by 1973, 998; A 2009, 2740)
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