Annual Registration Program Information

Introduction

Water Code section 1228.2, subdivision (c) provides that the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), Division of Water Rights (Division) shall post the following information on this website:

  1. a summary of the location, nature, and amount of water appropriated pursuant to the water rights registration program; and,
  2. a description of the availability of unappropriated water in those stream systems which may become fully appropriated within the next reporting period.

Amount of Water Appropriated

The table below provides a summary of the location, nature and amount of water appropriated pursuant to the water rights registration program as of March 30th, 2023.

Sum of Face ValueRecord Type
County HUC Registration Domestic Registration Livestock Registration Irrigation Registration Cannabis Grand Total Change From Previous Update
Alameda San Francisco Bay 21.0 28.2     49.2 0.0
San Joaquin Delta   2.0 2.0 0.0
Amador Upper Cosumnes 13.4 15.7     29.1 0.0
Upper Mokelumne 8.5 52.6 61.1 10.0
Butte Honcut Headwaters-Lower Feather 11.4 10.0     21.4 0.0
North Fork Feather 0.3 0.3 0.0
Calaveras Rock Creek-French Camp Slough   0.7     0.7 0.0
San Joaquin Delta 10.3 10.3 0.0
Upper Calaveras California 46.1 1.7 47.8 0.0
Upper Mokelumne 0.5 9.5 10.0 0.0
Upper Stanislaus 5.2 2.0 7.2 0.0
Colusa Sacramento-Stone Corral 9.9 151.3     161.2 0.0
Contra Costa San Francisco Bay 25.0 7.4     32.4 0.0
San Joaquin Delta   1.7 1.7 0.0
San Pablo Bay   0.6 0.6 0.0
Del Norte Smith 15.7       15.7 0.0
El Dorado North Fork American 16.6 5.0     21.6 0.0
South Fork American 19.0 19.0 0.0
Upper Cosumnes 21.1 10.0 31.1 0.0
Fresno Middle San Joaquin-Lower Chowchilla 1.5       1.5 0.0
Upper Dry 3.2 3.2 0.0
Glenn Upper Stony 5.3 26.2     31.5 0.0
Humboldt Lower Eel 33.0     80.6 113.6 0.2
Lower Eel, South Fork Eel   4.1 4.1 0.0
Lower Klamath 8.5 4.8 13.3 -0.7
Mad-Redwood 94.1 40.1 134.2 1.6
Mattole 123.3 6.0 3.2 54.6 187.1 -0.7
South Fork Eel 93.7 72.5 166.2 1.4
South Fork Eel, Lower Eel   1.0 1.0 0.0
South Fork Eel, Mattole 2.0 5.0 7.0 0.0
South Fork Trinity 12.6 12.4 25.0 0.0
Trinity 8.0 9.3 17.4 1.6
Inyo Crowley Lake 5.0       5.0 0.0
Owens Lake 6.0 6.0 0.0
Panamint Valley 4.5 4.5 0.0
Kern Indian Wells-Searles Valleys 5.0       5.0 0.0
Lake Upper Cache 43.9     9.3 53.2 -0.4
Upper Eel 0.1 1.2 1.4 0.1
Upper Putah 83.0 83.0 0.0
Lassen Madeline Plains   3.7     3.7 0.0
Massacre Lake   11.1 11.1 0.0
Los Angeles Antelope-Fremont Valleys 7.5       7.5 0.0
Santa Clara 13.9 13.9 0.0
Madera Fresno River 21.7 21.5     43.2 17.3
Middle San Joaquin-Lower Chowchilla   13.2 13.2 0.0
Marin San Pablo Bay 22.3 56.8     79.1 0.0
Tomales-Drake Bays 3.8 184.1 187.8 0.0
Mariposa Middle San Joaquin-Lower Chowchilla 17.9 111.9     129.8 0.0
Upper Merced 3.5 0.7 4.2 0.0
Mendocino Big-Navarro-Garcia 460.0 44.1 56.7 9.6 570.4 6.6
Gualala-Salmon   0.6 0.6 0.0
Lower Eel 13.0 15.8 28.8 -0.8
Lower Eel, South Fork Eel 6.1 6.1 0.0
Mattole 7.1 0.1 7.2 0.0
Middle Fork Eel 31.2 13.0 44.2 -0.3
Russian 200.0 90.4 101.3 21.0 412.7 -0.6
South Fork Eel 41.6 0.7 22.8 65.0 -2.7
South Fork Eel, Upper Eel   0.4 0.4 0.0
Upper Eel 66.0 53.0 11.8 130.8 -0.1
Merced Upper Merced   1.5     1.5 0.0
Modoc Surprise Valley   3.7     3.7 0.0
Upper Pit 15.0 9.8 24.8 0.0
Goose Lake   8.0 8.0 0.0
Mono Crowley Lake 0.3       0.3 0.1
Monterey Central Coastal 86.0 1.9     87.9 0.1
Salinas 5.7 2.5 8.2 0.0
Napa San Pablo Bay 212.6 27.3 61.0   300.9 0.0
Suisun Bay   0.5 0.5 0.0
Upper Putah 80.7 14.0 94.7 0.0
Nevada Truckee 0.1 0.2     0.3 0.0
Upper Bear 8.7 8.7 0.0
Upper Yuba 31.7 31.7 2.0
Orange Aliso-San Onofre 0.8       0.8 0.0
Placer Lake Tahoe 1.4       1.4 0.0
Lower American 23.8 23.8 0.0
North Fork American 6.3 6.3 0.0
Truckee 5.5 5.5 0.0
Upper Bear 16.0 16.0 0.0
Upper Coon-Upper Auburn 4.5 9.9 14.4 0.0
Upper Yuba 10.0 10.0 0.0
Plumas East Branch North Fork Feather 8.2       8.2 0.0
Middle Fork Feather 6.2 6.2 0.0
North Fork Feather 3.5 3.5 0.0
San Benito Pajaro   7.8     7.8 0.0
San Bernardino Ivanpah-Pahrump Valleys 0.2       0.2 0.0
Mojave 0.3 0.3 0.0
Southern Mojave 14.4 14.4 0.0
San Diego San Diego 3.5       3.5 0.0
San Joaquin San Joaquin Delta   19.4     19.4 0.0
San Luis Obispo Central Coastal 5.0       5.0 0.0
Estrella 8.0 8.0 0.0
Salinas 33.2 39.8 73.0 0.0
San Mateo Coyote 2.8       2.8 0.0
San Francisco Bay 4.9 4.9 0.0
San Francisco Coastal South 32.5 41.6 74.1 0.0
Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Coastal 7.5       7.5 0.0
Santa Ynez 10.0 10.0 0.0
Santa Clara Coyote 19.6 0.5     20.1 0.0
Pajaro 9.6 2.2 11.8 0.0
San Francisco Bay   9.7 9.7 0.0
Santa Cruz Monterey Bay 5.2     0.1 5.3 0.0
San Francisco Coastal South   0.3 0.3 0.3
Shasta Battle Creek 14.8       14.8 0.0
Clear Creek-Sacramento River 8.7 7.0 15.7 0.0
Cottonwood Creek 8.8 8.3 17.1 0.0
Cow Creek 20.5 13.9 34.3 0.0
Lower Pit 11.3 11.3 1.6
Sacramento Headwaters 0.2 0.2 0.0
Sierra Middle Fork Feather 3.4       3.4 0.0
Truckee 1.8 1.8 0.0
Upper Yuba 26.7 26.7 0.0
Siskiyou Lower Klamath 44.3       44.3 0.0
Salmon 9.0 9.0 0.0
Scott 21.6 21.6 0.0
Shasta 3.7 12.6 16.3 12.6
Upper Klamath 35.1 35.1 0.0
Solano Lower Sacramento   10.0     10.0 0.0
Suisun Bay 9.6 8.9 18.5 0.0
Upper Putah 11.2 11.2 0.0
Sonoma Gualala-Salmon 36.3 1.4   0.5 38.2 0.0
Russian 393.4 57.8 51.0 7.6 509.8 30.0
San Pablo Bay 64.5 85.0 20.0 7.0 176.5 9.7
Tomales-Drake Bays 33.5 85.6 4.6 123.7 0.0
Tehama Battle Creek 1.2       1.2 0.0
Big Chico Creek-Sacramento River 5.6 1.0 6.6 0.0
Cottonwood Creek 18.1 82.7 100.8 0.0
Paynes Creek-Sacramento River 10.9 114.8 125.7 0.0
Thomes Creek-Sacramento River   44.1 44.1 0.0
Thomes Creek-Sacramento River, Paynes Creek-Sacramento River   9.3 9.3 0.0
Trinity Lower Eel 18.6     8.4 27.0 -0.2
Mad-Redwood 17.0 5.2 22.2 -0.1
South Fork Trinity 49.6 18.0 67.6 2.6
Trinity 74.8 16.6 91.3 0.1
Trinity, South Fork Trinity   0.4 0.4 0.0
Tulare Upper Kern 1.0       1.0 0.0
Tuolumne Upper Stanislaus   7.9     7.9 0.0
Upper Tuolumne 1.3 32.0 33.3 0.0
Upper Tuolumne, Upper Stanislaus   8.7 8.7 0.0
Yolo Sacramento-Stone Corral   6.8     6.8 0.0
Upper Cache   18.8 18.8 0.0
Upper Cache, Sacramento-Stone Corral   7.3 7.3 0.0
Upper Putah   4.4 4.4 0.0
Yuba Honcut Headwaters-Lower Feather 3.6 8.0     11.6 0.0
Upper Bear   10.0 10.0 0.0
Upper Yuba 3.2 3.2 0.0
Grand Total   3319.0 1766.6 293.2 460.3 5839.1 91.3

 

Availability of Unappropriated Water

This section provides a description of the availability of unappropriated water in those stream systems which may become fully appropriated between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.

County Stream System Description
Nevada, Placer, Sierra Lake Tahoe and Truckee River Basin Water Rights Decision 1651 provides that the State Water Board should administer water rights with a view towards assuring that water use is consistent with the Interstate Settlement Act (Act). Under provisions of the Act, the Truckee River Operating Agreement has taken effect. Due to the uncertainty regarding the amount of water that will be made available for California water rights, applications in the stream system will be required to perform a water availability analysis to show that water is available for that project.

If a registration is filed with a source of supply on a stream system listed above, the registration will not take effect unless the Division finds that unappropriated water is available for the appropriation proposed in the registration. If the Division finds that unappropriated water is not available to supply the appropriation proposed in the registration, the stream system will be considered for inclusion on the State Water Board’s Declaration of Fully Appropriated Stream Systems.

Water Code section 1205 et seq. provides that the State Water Board, following notice and hearing and upon making specified findings, may adopt, revise, or revoke a declaration that a stream system is fully appropriated. Upon inclusion of a stream system on such a declaration, the State Water Board thereafter is prohibited from accepting for filing any application to appropriate water by permit or registration with a source of supply on the stream system, except that the declaration may specify conditions and limitations under which the State Water Board will accept the filing of applications and registrations.

The State Water Board’s current Declaration of Fully Appropriated Stream Systems is contained in Order WR 98-08 and is available at: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/fully_appropriated_streams/

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