---
kind: "unit"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
key: "ch18"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 18"
heading: "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/ch18"
sections_count: 17
---

# Chapter 18 — Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention

Title 16 — Conservation

## Sections

- [§1001. Declaration of policy](/usc/16/1001.md)
- [§1002. Definitions](/usc/16/1002.md)
- [§1003. Assistance to local organizations](/usc/16/1003.md)
- [§1003a. Cost share assistance](/usc/16/1003a.md)
- [§1004. Conditions for Federal assistance](/usc/16/1004.md)
- [§1005. Works of improvement](/usc/16/1005.md)
- [§1006. Cooperative programs](/usc/16/1006.md)
- [§1006a. Loans or advancements for financing local share of costs; repayment; interest; maximum amount](/usc/16/1006a.md)
- [§1006b. Territorial application](/usc/16/1006b.md)
- [§1007. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/16/1007.md)
- [§1008. Notification of Secretary of the Interior of approval of assistance; surveys and investigations; report and recommendations; consideration; cost of surveys, investigations and reports](/usc/16/1008.md)
- [§1009. Joint investigations and surveys by Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Agriculture; reports to Congress](/usc/16/1009.md)
- [§1010. Data](/usc/16/1010.md)
- [§1011. Watershed restoration and enhancement agreements](/usc/16/1011.md)
- [§1011a. Watershed agreements](/usc/16/1011a.md)
- [§1012. Rehabilitation of structural measures near, at, or past their evaluated life expectancy](/usc/16/1012.md)
- [§1012a. Funding](/usc/16/1012a.md)