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Summary
of Oregon House Bill 2564 and House Bill 2566
House Bill 2564 (HB 2564), sponsored by the House Committee on Energy and the Environment, will require all water users to install and maintain devises to measure the rate and duty of water withdrawn or stored at the point of diversion.
This requirement to measure would include all surface and groundwater diversions including currently exempt uses such as domestic wells and stock water ponds. It would also require the measurement of all stored water regardless of the size of the impoundment.
The measurement requirement would apply to all water withdrawn or stored upon passage of the act, and on January 1, 2012 to all water withdrawn or stored before the passage of the act. The Oregon Water Resources Department would be authorized to require measurement of any water withdrawn or stored at any time after passage of the act.
House
Bill 2566 (House
Bill 2566), sponsored by the House Committee on Energy
and the Environment, will eliminate the exemption from requirement to
register, certificate, or permit ground water appropriated after the
passage of the act. This will effectively require the owner of every
domestic well, stock water well, or other unregistered well to obtain
a certificate before using the well.
The Oregon Water Resources Department estimates that this act
will require obtaining water rights on at least 250,000 wells in
Following
hearings and work sessions the committee has not adopted any
amendments to these proposed acts.
PLEASE contact these individuals to express your concern. The individuals on the House committee that is hearing these bills include: