Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 690 - WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT › Division 14 - CERTIFIED WATER RIGHT EXAMINERS › Section 690-014-0020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The definitions found in Oregon Administrative Rules chapter
				690, divisions 300 and 380, apply. The following definitions also apply:
(1) "Acre-Foot (AF)" means the equivalent
			 volume of one acre covered with one foot of water (325,851 gallons).
(2) "Certified Water Right Examiner" or
			 "CWRE" means any individual certified by OSBEELS to collect and report data and
			 conduct surveys to describe the extent of appropriation for Claims of
			 Beneficial Use, and also to prepare maps for transfer applications.
(3) "Claim of Beneficial Use" means documents
			 submitted to the Department requesting a certificate of water right be issued
			 for the authorized use or uses made. These documents shall include the report
			 of the site inspection, calculations for the rate of flow, and the map
			 illustrating the location of beneficial use made within the terms of the permit
			 or transfer final order.
(4)
			 "Commission" means the Water Resources Commission.
(5) "Cubic Foot per Second (cfs)" means a
			 rate of water flow, equal to 448.83 gallons of water per minute.
(6) "Department" means the Water Resources
			 Department.
(7) "Director" means
			 the Director of the Department or the Director's authorized deputies or
			 officers.
(8) "Measuring Device"
			 means a structure or apparatus such as a weir, meter, or flume to determine
			 rate of flow or volume of water.
(9) "OAR" means Oregon Administrative Rules.
(10) "ORS" means Oregon Revised
			 Statutes.
(11) "OSBEELS" means
			 Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying.
(12) "Rate and Duty of Water" means the flow
			 of water expressed in cfs or gallons per minute (instantaneous rate) and the
			 volume of water expressed in AF (duty) as allowed in the permit or transfer
			 final order.
(13) "Spring" means a
			 place where water naturally emerges from the ground.
(14) "Source" means the surface or ground
			 water body for each point of diversion or point of appropriation involved in a
			 permit or transfer final order.
(15) "Survey of Appropriation" means the
			 field inspection and document preparation performed by a CWRE to obtain the
			 data necessary to support the Claim of Beneficial Use.
(16) "Water Rights Act" means the same as
			 defined by ORS 537.010.
(17) "Well" means any artificial opening or
			 artificially altered natural opening, however made, by which ground water is
			 sought or through which ground water flows under natural pressure, or is
			 artificially withdrawn or injected. This definition shall not include a natural
			 spring, or wells drilled for the purpose of exploration or production of oil or
			 gas. Prospecting or exploration for geothermal resources as defined in ORS
			 522.005 or production of
			 geothermal resources derived from a depth greater than 2,000 feet as defined in
			 ORS 522.055 is regulated by the
			 Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 536 & 537
Stats. Implemented: ORS 536 & 537