The Flood Control Department is responsible for: 

• Ensuring that property damage is minimal due to flooding.

• Repair and rehabilitation of all levees and floodwalls ensuring that they are in flood ready condition.

• Maintaining approximately 15 miles of flood protection structures

• Continuously monitors and maintains the early flood warning system and its 34 sites

• Writing of federal grants and/or oversees the administration of approved federal grants, acquiring and demolishing residential and commercial properties in the floodplain and returning the land to green space