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Adjudication Recommendation POUs

Locations for Places of Use (POUs) for active adjudication recommendations in Idaho. POUs represent areas where water can be used from a live flow, either surface water or ground water (springs, stream or well), and put to beneficial use under a water right. A water right must have at least one use, and may have many uses. Uses may be consumptive, such as irrigation or domestic, or non-consumptive, such as power or instream flow. Polygons depicting POUs were initially developed from the PLSS descriptions on the water right documents, such as quarter quarters and government lots. Some POUs have been digitized using aerial imagery. POU locations are continuously being updated as better locational information becomes available. A water right can be in one or more of seven process or stages: (1) Application for a permit to develop a new water right; (2) Permit for applicant to develop the water use; (3) Licensed bona fide water right through which the Idaho Department of Water Resources has approved final configuration and amounts; (4) Claim for a water right or beneficial use which has been claimed in an adjudication; (5) Recommendation , which is the determination of the final configuation and amount of a Claim, that, when approved by the court, is decreed and supersedes its License, if one previously existed; (6) A decreed bona fide water right, as decreed by a court through an adjudication; (7) Transfer of a portion of the WR or claim, generally through a change of ownership splitting the right, or change in one or more elements of the water right or claim.
Wells

The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) has statutory authority for the state-wide administration of the rules governing well construction and the licensing of drillers in Idaho. Prior to drilling a well, the well owner or well driller must first obtain a drilling permit from IDWR. All wells must be constructed by a well driller with a valid license from IDWR. Examples of permittable wells include all water wells, monitoring wells, low temperature geothermal wells, geothermal wells, injection wells, and other artificial openings and excavations in the ground greater than 18 vertical feet below land surface. Information about existing wells from our database of well logs includes well size and depth, geology, depth to water, water levels, flow rate and construction method. The database contains most of the well reports dating back to July 1987. Prior to that the records in the database are less complete.
Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Area of Common Ground Water Supply Boundary

The 2024 Legislature passed Senate Bill 1341, expanding the area of common ground water supply (ACGWS) for the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA) to reflect the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model boundary, v2.2. This dataset displays the outline of the area where model grid cells are used in the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Modeling (ESPAM) effort (v. 2.1 and 2.2). The Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer model (version 2) is used for water management decisions, including conjunctive administration of surface and groundwater. Idaho Code 42-233c allows the Idaho Department of Water Resources Director to expand, hold hearings, and issue orders regarding the expansion of the Areas of Common Groundwater Supply. The boundary of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Areas of Common Groundwater Supply will continue to evolve as new tributaries are added to the existing boundary. This boundary represents the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model (ESPAM) boundary and includes tributary basins that have been incorporated into the Area of Common Groundwater Supply through final orders of the Director that are no longer subject to protest or appeal.
Public Land Survey Township & Range

This data set represents a GIS Version of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) including both rectangular and non-rectangular surveys. These are the cadastral reference features that provide the basis and framework for mapping. This feature data set contains PLSS and Other Survey System data. The other survey systems include subdivision plats and those types of survey reference systems. This PLSS dataset was compiled by IDWR in 2016/2017 showing Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data from a variety of sources, including BLM's CadNSDI, IDL's edits to the CadNSDI alongside alignments to data from a variety of counties. Source and Edit information are provided in the QQ layer.
Coeur d'Alene-Spokane River Basin Adjudication

The purpose of a Water Right Adjudication is to catalog and confirm through the court all existing Water Rights in a hydrologic basin, and to which property those Water Rights belong, binding all property owners and parties to the court decree of those Water Rights. On November 12, 2008, the Idaho Water Adjudications court issued a [Commencement Order] for the Coeur d'Alene-Spokane River Basin Adjudication For more information, visit the IDWR [Adjudication] page.
Public Land Survey Sections

This data set represents a GIS Version of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) including both rectangular and non-rectangular surveys. These are the cadastral reference features that provide the basis and framework for mapping. This feature data set contains PLSS and Other Survey System data. The other survey systems include subdivision plats and those types of survey reference systems. This PLSS dataset was compiled by IDWR in 2016/2017 showing Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data from a variety of sources, including BLM's CadNSDI, IDL's edits to the CadNSDI alongside alignments to data from a variety of counties. Source and Edit information are provided in the QQ layer.
Water Right PODs

Locations of points of diversion for active bona fide (licensed or decreed) water rights in Idaho. Points of Diversion (PODs) represent where water is diverted from its natural source, either surface water or ground water (springs, stream or well), to be put to beneficial use under a water right. A water right must have at least one, and may have many, PODs. The water use(s) for which diverted water is put can be found under the water right's place of use shape(s) or report. Point locations for PODs were initially developed from the centroid of the PLSS as described in the POD legal description. Over time, as better location information is gained, POD locations are updated. A water right can be in one or more of seven process or stages: (1) Application for a permit to develop a new water right; (2) Permit for applicant to develop the water use; (3) Licensed bona fide water right through which the Idaho Department of Water Resources has approved final configuration and amounts; (4) Claim for a water right or beneficial use which has been claimed in an adjudication; (5) Recommendation , which is the determination of the final configuation and amount of a Claim, that, when approved by the court, is decreed and supersedes its License, if one previously existed; (6) A decreed bona fide water right, as decreed by a court through an adjudication; (7) Transfer of a portion of the WR or claim, generally through a change of ownership splitting the right, or change in one or more elements of the water right or claim.
IDWR Linear Administrative Basins

IDWR has divided the state into over 50 administrative basins in order to coordinate water management activities. Most of these basins are represented with polygons ([found here]), but the Snake River constitutes a large enough resource that it is separated into basins of its own, each represented by a line. Basin 1 corresponds to that portion of the Snake River from the Wyoming border to Milner Dam. Basin 2 represents Milner Dam to where the Snake River leaves Idaho into Oregon. Basin 3 stretches from where the Snake re-enters Idaho to where it leaves the state at Lewiston.
Clark Fork-Pend Oreille River Basin Adjudication

The purpose of a Water Right Adjudication is to catalog and confirm through the court all existing Water Rights in a hydrologic basin, and to which property those Water Rights belong, binding all property owners and parties to the court decree of those Water Rights. On June 15, 2021, the 5th Judicial District Court issued a commencement order for the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille River Basin Adjudication, a legal process in which a court catalogs and confirms all existing water rights in the Clark Fork and Pend Oreille River Basin within the state of Idaho. The adjudication will review all water rights held by local, state, and federal governments, Native American tribes, and private property owners. The commencement order gives water users within the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille River Basin the option of deferring the filing of small domestic and stockwater claims. The adjudication includes both surface water and groundwater rights in those portions of Boundary, Bonner, and Kootenai Counties within the CFPRBA boundary. The Clark Fork Adjudication is the third phase of the Northern Idaho Adjudication, following Coeur d’Alene River Basin Adjudication (CSRBA) and the Palouse River Basin Adjudication (PRBA). For more information, visit the IDWR [Adjudication] page.
ET-IDWR Stations

This dataset reflects weather station locations in and surrounding the state of Idaho that are available on the ET-IDWR website (https://et-idwr.idaho.gov/). The ET-IDWR website provides estimates of evapotranspiration (ET), net irrigation requirements (NIR), and effective precipitation supporting ET (PEff). These data and this web site were produced in 2007 and were updated in 2009, 2012, 2017, 2023, and 2025. ET calculation procedures employ a modern reference equation (ASCE standardized Penman-Monteith method) and a modern procedure to calculate crop coefficients that considers the impact of surface wetting by irrigation and precipitation on total evaporation from the soil surface. ET is provided for daily, monthly, and annual timesteps for 212 weather station locations across Idaho and adjoining states. In addition to ET and NIR estimates for agricultural crops grown in Idaho, ET estimates are available for a number of native plant systems (wetlands, rangelands, and riparian areas) and open water surfaces. The ET and NIR estimates are intended for use in design and management of irrigation systems, for water rights management and consumptive water right transfers, and for hydrologic studies. ET estimates are available for all times during the calendar year to provide information for land application design, operation, and management of waste streams from agriculture, food processing and other sources during the nongrowing periods. These web pages allow you to access historical ET data for Idaho and adjoining states at various locations. Currently, the data are based on 212 stations associated with five meterological networks. Each station in the list of stations below ends with an abreviation that indicates the meterological network. The five networks are: NWS -- National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Network PN-AM -- USBR Pacific Northwest Region AgriMet Network GP-AM -- USBR Great Plains Region AgriMet Network AM/INL -- USBR Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region AgriMet Network and NOAA INL Center RAWS -- National Interagency Fire Center Remote Automatice Weather Station Network
ET-IDWR Station Polygons

This dataset reflects weather station locations in and surrounding the state of Idaho that are available on the ET-IDWR website (https://et-idwr.idaho.gov/). The ET-IDWR website provides estimates of evapotranspiration (ET), net irrigation requirements (NIR), and effective precipitation supporting ET (PEff). These data and this web site were produced in 2007 and were updated in 2009, 2012, 2017, 2023, and 2025. ET calculation procedures employ a modern reference equation (ASCE standardized Penman-Monteith method) and a modern procedure to calculate crop coefficients that considers the impact of surface wetting by irrigation and precipitation on total evaporation from the soil surface. ET is provided for daily, monthly, and annual timesteps for 212 weather station locations across Idaho and adjoining states. In addition to ET and NIR estimates for agricultural crops grown in Idaho, ET estimates are available for a number of native plant systems (wetlands, rangelands, and riparian areas) and open water surfaces. The ET and NIR estimates are intended for use in design and management of irrigation systems, for water rights management and consumptive water right transfers, and for hydrologic studies. ET estimates are available for all times during the calendar year to provide information for land application design, operation, and management of waste streams from agriculture, food processing and other sources during the nongrowing periods.These web pages allow you to access historical ET data for Idaho and adjoining states at various locations. Currently, the data are based on 212 stations associated with five meterological networks. Each station in the list of stations below ends with an abreviation that indicates the meterological network. The five networks are: NWS -- National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Network PN-AM -- USBR Pacific Northwest Region AgriMet Network GP-AM -- USBR Great Plains Region AgriMet Network AM/INL -- USBR Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region AgriMet Network and NOAA INL Center RAWS -- National Interagency Fire Center Remote Automatice Weather Station Network
Telemetric Time Series Sites

This dataset depicts locations maintained in the Idaho Department of Water Resources database. Database records include water flow measurements and estimates in time-series intervals ranging from 15 minutes to daily. Data include time-series records collected by IDWR as well as data collected in conjunction with and by third-parties. Points in this dataset correspond to locations found in IDWR’s Aqua Info application (see URL) which gives its users access to flow estimates which can be viewed in charts and downloaded in tabulated format.
Kootenai River Basin Adjudication

The purpose of a Water Right Adjudication is to catalog and confirm through the court all existing Water Rights in a hydrologic basin, and to which property those Water Rights belong, binding all property owners and parties to the court decree of those Water Rights. Idaho Code [§ 42-1406D], effective July 1, 2024, authorized the Idaho Department of Water Resources to petition the district court to commence an adjudication of the water rights from surface water and ground water sources in the Kootenai River basin. The statute concludes that “ Effective management of the waters of the Kootenai River basin requires that a comprehensive determination of the nature, extent, and priority of the rights of all users of surface and ground water be determined.“ On November 13, 2024, the Idaho Supreme Court issued a Provisional Order appointing the Presiding Judge of the [Idaho Water Adjudications] in the Fifth Judicial District of the State of Idaho as the Presiding Judge over Kootenai River Basin Adjudication (KRBA). The Presiding Judge of the Idaho Water Adjudications is currently Judge Eric Wildman. A Petition to Commence the KRBA was filed on January 3, 2025. On January 9, 2025, the Idaho Water Adjudications issued an order setting a hearing on the commencement order for April 15, 2025. On March 6, 2026, the Idaho Water Adjudications court issued a [Commencement Order] for the Kootenai River Basin Adjudication. For more information, visit the IDWR [Adjudication] page.
Palouse River Basin Adjudication

The purpose of a Water Right Adjudication is to catalog and confirm through the court all existing Water Rights in a hydrologic basin, and to which property those Water Rights belong, binding all property owners and parties to the court decree of those Water Rights. On March 1, 2017, the Idaho Water Adjudications court issued a [Commencement Order] for the Palouse River Basin Adjudication. For more information, visit the IDWR [Adjudication] page.
Small Scale Mining Streams

This layer shows whether and when streams in Idaho are open for recreational dredging. This typically involves the uses of suction dredges with nozzle diameter of five (5) inches or less and rated at fifteen (15) horse power or less and non-powered sluice equipment moving more than one quarter (1/4) cubic yard per hour. The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR), Recreational Dredging Permit Application, Form 3804-A, must be obtained prior to dredging in Idaho waters. The stream reaches where recreational dredging is allowed under this permit and when these areas are open may have changed from prior years as a result of recommendations from state and federal fisheries agencies to better ensure the protection of threatened and endangered species and their habitat. Applicant is responsible for knowing and complying with current requirements
Water Measurement Information System (WMIS)

This layer contains water measuring locations that are contained within the Idaho Department of Water Resources Water Measurement Information System (WMIS), a database system used for entering and storing water measurement data. WMIS can be accessed via https://research.idwr.idaho.gov/apps/WaterManagement/WMIS/PointOfDiversion.aspx. WMIS is limited mainly to ground water and spring diversions in the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA). GPS locations have been collected by Idaho Department of Water Resources staff, contractors or staff working for ground water districts and irrigation districts, and ESPA water measurement district staff. Other locations have been assigned locations based on PLSS descriptions in associated water rights documentation, or have been digitized from aerial imagery. Data have been collected from 1995 through the present. Attribute fields included in the data set include GPS site tag ID number, WMIS Point of Diversion (POD) number (an arbitrary number used in the WMIS database), X and Y locations in the IDTM83 projection, elevation (in feet), the district or organization that measures and reports measurements and annual use to Idaho Department of Water Resources (district names/organizations abbreviated) and the legal point of diversion description associated with the location. The legal description in WMIS is based on the legal description that was given for the diversion in one or more water right records on file at Idaho Department of Water Resources. An annual summary of the volume (acre/feet) diverted is available for each year beginning with 2010 to the most recent past year.
Injection Wells

In Idaho, excess stormwater, agricultural water, and facility heating/cooling water are the most common fluids disposed of with injection wells of various design, including standard cased well, drain fields, infiltration trenches. The Underground Injection Control (UIC) program was delegated by EPA to the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) in 1985. The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) regulates the construction, operation, and abandonment of all injection wells through the Idaho Underground Injection Control Program. A majority of the wells currently managed by the IDWR UIC program are storm water, agricultural return flow, and heat exchange systems. Wells in this layer are classified as Deep Injection Wells (depth greater than 18 feet) and Shallow Injection Wells (depth less than or equal to 18 feet).
Areas Of Drilling Concern

The area of drilling concern designation is designed to protect public health and to prevent waste or contamination of ground or surface water because of factors such as aquifer pressure, vertical depth of the aquifer, warm or hot ground water, or contaminated ground or surface waters. Aquifers areas designated as an area of drilling concern have additional well construction requirements that must be followed. The statute applies to both new wells being drilled and to the deepening or modification of an existing well.
Municipal Service Area Boundaries

This data was updated 2026-04-27. This data represents the general service area of the place of use for organizations with water rights who qualify as municipalities or municipal providers under I.C. Title 42 or the 1996 Municipal Water Rights Act and who have a municipal water right on file at IDWR. The service area is for illustrative purposes. This data does not necessarily represent the boundary of city limits. Drainage Districts and Tribal boundaries are not represented in this data. This dataset is derived from the following queries of IDWR water right and recommendation databases: Status = Active, LPOU = Yes, And (WaterUse = Municipal or WaterUse = Municipal From Storage). A Large POU (LPOU) is a water right place of use for which the delivery of water is described with a digital boundary as defined by I.C. Section 42-202B(2) and authorized pursuant to I.C. Section 42-1411(2)(h). If a specific owner has multiple rights represented by different PlaceOfUseIDs, the PlaceofUseID representing the largest area is used. If there is significant divergence in location between different PlaceofUseIDs, the shapes are merged and PlaceofUseID of -999 is assigned.