"Flood management project" or any phrase of similar import, means a project or improvement that is located within or without a city in a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 and is established for the control or management of any flood or storm waters of the city or any flood or storm waters of a stream of which the source is located outside of the city. The term includes, without limitation:
1. A drainage project or flood control project;
2. A project to construct, repair or restore an ecosystem;
3. A project to mitigate any adverse effect of flooding or flood management activity or improvement;
4. A project to conserve any flood or storm waters for any beneficial and useful purpose by spreading, storing, reusing or retaining those waters or causing those waters to percolate into the ground to improve water quality;
5. A project that alters or diverts or proposes to alter or divert a natural watercourse, including any improvement for the passage of fish;
6. A recreational project that is related to a flood management project;
7. Any landscaping or similar amenity that is constructed:
(a) To increase the usefulness of a flood management project to any community or to provide aesthetic compatibility with any surrounding community; or
(b) To mitigate any adverse effect on the environment relating to a flood management project;
8. A project to relocate or replace a utility, transmission line, conduit, bridge or similar feature or structure that exacerbates any flooding or is located in an area that is susceptible to flooding;
9. A project to protect and manage a floodplain;
10. A project that is designed to improve the quality of any flood or storm waters or the operation of any flood management system, including, without limitation, any monitoring, measurement or assessment of that system; and
11. The acquisition of any real property or interest in real property to support the carrying out of a flood management project, including, without limitation, any property that may become flooded because of any improvement for flood management,
or any combination thereof and any other structure, fixture, equipment or property required for a flood management project.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 2739; A 2011, 1162)