The Department of Forests and Waters is hereby authorized to make a survey of the Susquehanna River and the lands and embankments adjacent thereto within and in the vicinity of the City of Lock Haven, in the County of Clinton, and to prepare plans and specifications for the widening, deepening, removal of obstructions, or the construction or repair of walls, or the changing of the course or channel of said river as may be found necessary, to obviate so far as possible any danger from floods within and in the vicinity of said city.
32 P.S. § 651