From the State Water Resources Control Board:
Effective immediately, all orders imposing water right curtailment and reporting requirements (curtailment and reporting orders) issued pursuant to the emergency curtailment and reporting regulation for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) watershed (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 876.1 et seq.) are hereby rescinded.
The curtailment and reporting orders imposed reporting requirements and required water right holders and claimants to monitor the Delta Drought website and cease diversions when the Delta Watershed Curtailment Status List showed their right or claim was curtailed. Following the Governor’s recent Executive Order (N-5-23), and in consideration of reservoir storage conditions and continued precipitation throughout the Delta watershed, the curtailment and reporting orders are no longer needed.
As a result of this recission, water right holders and claimants will no longer be subject to curtailment requirements under the drought emergency regulation for the Delta Watershed. This includes checking curtailment statuses, enhanced reporting for larger rights and claims, and reporting for human health and safety exceptions. Pending requests for an exception to curtailment are similarly no longer necessary and are now considered closed. Please note that this recission does not eliminate ongoing or pending enforcement actions for past violations and related settlements.
Please contact the Division of Water Rights at Bay-Delta@waterboards.ca.gov or (916) 319-0960 if you have any questions.
