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