Ponds and Catchments

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Ponds and Catchments

• Coast Fork Willamette River Watershed Council

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Overview of My Duties

• Enforce water law
• Settle water use disputes
• Monitor streamflow
• Instream water rights
• Data for planning
• Enforce well construction standards
• Assist the public
• Water right applications
• Water right research
• Well log research
• Dam safety inspections

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Oregon Water Code, cont.

• Who needs a water right?
• Who does not? (exempt uses)
• Permit process
• Fees
• Times lines
• Basin programs
• Water availability

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You need a permit to

• Use
• Store
• Divert

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Oregon Water Code

• Prior appropriation doctrine
• What a water right is
• Beneficial use
• Specific source, place of use, rate, duty
• Priority date
• Types of water rights
• SW claims -pre 1909
• GW registrations - pre 1955 (not regulated for or
  against)
• Permits and certificates

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The 1909 Water Code

• Four basic provisions
• Beneficial use without waste
• Using water for personal or public good
• Priority
• First in time, first in right
• Appurtenancy
• Attached to the land
• Must be used
• At least once every five years

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Exempt Uses, cont.

• Surface Water
• Fish bypass / fish screens
• STEP projects
• Certain stock water systems
• Springs that never flow off

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Exempt Uses

• Surface Water
• Fish bypass / fish screens
• STEP projects
• Certain stock water systems
• Springs that never flow off
• Emergency Fire Fighting
• Rain water collected from an artificial surface

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Exempt Uses

• Ground Water
• Single and group domestic
• 15,000 gallons per day
• Commercial/Industrial uses
• 5,000 gallons per day
• Lawn and garden
• Up to ½ acre
• Livestock watering

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Priority

• Prior appropriation
• First in time, first in right

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Regulation protecting rights and resources

• Illegal water uses
• Use without a permit
• Violating terms

• Legal use low flows A stops so B has
  water

• Attempt voluntary compliance
• Invoke civil penalties
• Go to the DA

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The Permit System3 step process
Change in use (place, type, diversion)
Non-use
Cancellations
Transfers
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The Permit System3 step process

• Fees
• Basin program
• Water availability
• 7 month timeline

Change in use (place, type, diversion)
Non-use
Cancellations
Transfers
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Big Dam vs. Small Dam

• 10 feet or taller AND over 9.2 Acre Feet is BIG
• 500
• 20/ ac.ft. first 20 1/ac.ft after 20
• and 300 permit recording fee.
• Less than 10 ft tall OR less than 9.2 acre ft.
• 80 20 per acre foot.

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Foster Log pond near Sweet Home
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Permit Requirements

• Must be able to pass inflow
• Gated culvert through dam
• If on channel, must be able to pass fish
• Channel around pond or ladder or pools

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County Builing Code for Potable Water

• Rain water normally listed as Grey Water
• Possible to approve rain water system IF designed
  by a professional, is secure, and Sanitary,
• Code 106.1 Alternate Designs
• No standards for gardens or livestock

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