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State Water Board Uses Term 91 as the Basis for Curtailment Orders to Water Right Permit and License Holders
State Water Resources Control Board declared that (1) water being released from state and federal water projects is being released in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Watershed (Delta Watershed) and (2) the Delta is in Balanced Condition. It then issued curtailment notices to 88 holders of post 1914 water rights permits and licenses in the Delta Watershed whose permit or license contains Term 91.
The State Water Resources Control Board is taking a hard look at senior water right holders.
The requirement that water rights holders provide information that water they are diverting is being used for a “continued beneficial use” indicates that the Board is taking a “hard look” at water right holders whose rights are superior to other diverters.