Diversion Reporting

Persons/entities  claiming riparian, pre-1914 or other water rights must file a Statement  of Diversion and Use each year with the State Water Resources Control  Board before June 30.  This filing is in addition to the required filing  of a "Report of Licensee" which deals only with SWRCB issued water  right permits and licenses.

Generally,  a Statement of Diversion and Use must be filed for each point of  diversion even if multiple diversions serve the same parcel of  property.  Each Year the South Delta Water Agency and the Central Delta  Water Agency assist local diverters as necessary in their filings.  If  your land is within the South Delta Water Agency and you need assistance  you should contact Dean Ruiz, Esq. at dean@mohanlaw.net or his assistant Julie Smith at Julie@mohanlaw.net  If your land is within the Central Delta Water Agency and you need  assistance you should contact Dante Nomellini Jr., Esq. at  dantejr@pacbell.net

To access the SWRCB webpage to make a filing use the following link: https://rms.waterboards.ca.gov/login.aspx

Below is a sample form for your review as well as suggested language  to cut and paste into the appropriate boxes on the Statement you file.
 

The method used by SDWA and CDWA for determining what to report uses  the information from various sites in the Delta that measure weather  conditions and, in combination with a crop's know evapo-transpiration  rate then calculates water diverted and consumed.  This method is  acceptable to the SWRCB for those diversions in the Delta which have no  measuring device on the diversion and the landowner is a member of the  DAMMP program, a alternate measurement program.  

Below are the various  spreadsheets for calculating the amounts of water diverted and consumed  as well as the locations of the measuring sites.

Please check back in the future for more information regarding license reporting.