 CA
Water Code 5900-5901; Klamath River
Basin Compact;or here Appendix B - Siskiyou County Water Conservation and Flood Control
District Boundaries: "All of that territory of the County of
Siskiyou lying within the exterior boundaries thereof, exclusive of the area in Siskiyou
County within the Upper Klamath River Basin, as delineated on the Official Map of the
Upper Klamath River Basin approved September 6, 1956, and made a part of the Klamath River
Basin compact between the States of Oregon and California, ratified by said states on
April 17, 1957." "(r) To control
flood and storm waters within the district and the flood and storm waters or streams
outside the district, which flow into the district; to conserve such waters by storage in
surface reservoirs, to divert and transport such waters for beneficial uses within the
district; to release such waters from surface reservoirs to replenish and augment the
supply of water in natural underground reservoirs and otherwise to reduce the waste of
water and to protect life and property from floods within the district; to commence,
maintain, intervene in, defend or compromise, in the name of the district, on behalf of
the landowners therein, or otherwise to assume the cost and expenses of any action or
proceeding involving or affecting the ownership or use of waters or water rights within or
without the district, used or useful for any purpose of the district or of the common
benefit of any land situated therein, or involving the wasteful use of water therein; to
commence, maintain, intervene in, defend and compromise and to assume the cost and
expenses of any and all actions or proceedings now or hereafter begun; to prevent
interference with or diminution of, or to declare the rights in natural flow of any stream
or surface or subterranean supply of waters used or useful for any purpose of the district
or of common benefit of the lands within the district or to its inhabitants; to prevent
unlawful exportation of water from said district; to prevent contamination, pollution or
otherwise rendering unfit for beneficial use the surface or subsurface water used or
useful in said district, and to commence, maintain and defend actions and proceedings to
prevent any such interference with the aforesaid waters as may endanger or damage
the inhabitants, lands, or use of water in, or flowing into, the district provided,
however, that said district shall not have power to intervene or take part in or to pay
the costs or expenses of actions or controversies between the owners of lands or water
rights which do not affect the interests of the district."
In addition, there is a reserved storage right of
60,000 acre feet per year in Iron Gate Reservoir to serve irrigation and other consumptive
uses in the Shasta Valley. |
