Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 690 - WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT › Division 400 - STATE WATER RESOURCES POLICY › Section 690-400-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in the rules contained in Divisions 400 and 410, unless
				the context requires otherwise:
(1)
			 "Allocate" means to determine allowable new uses by classifying waters through
			 basin program rules, withdrawing waters, reserving water for future economic
			 development by order, or issuing water rights for waters of the
			 state.
(2) "Artificial Groundwater
			 Recharge" means the intentional addition of water to a groundwater reservoir by
			 diversion from another source (OAR 690-011-0010(2)).
(3) "Beneficial Use" means an instream public
			 use or a use of water for the benefit of an appropriator for a purpose
			 consistent with the laws and the economic and general welfare of the people of
			 the state and includes, but is not limited to, domestic, fish life, industrial,
			 irrigation, mining, municipal, pollution abatement, power development,
			 recreation, stockwater and wildlife uses.
(4) "Capacity of the Resource" means the
			 ability of a surface water or groundwater resource to sustain a balance of
			 public and private uses without causing over-appropriation or otherwise
			 significantly impairing the function or character of the resource.
(5) "Conservation" means eliminating waste or
			 otherwise improving efficiency in the use of water while satisfying beneficial
			 uses by modifying the technology or method for diverting, transporting,
			 applying or recovering the water, by changing management of water use, or by
			 implementing other measures.
(6)
			 "Customary Quantity" means the rate or annual amount of appropriation or
			 diversion of water ordinarily used by an appropriator within the terms of that
			 appropriator's water right (OAR 690-008-0001(3)).
(7) "Emergencies" means situations, including
			 but not limited to wildfire, flooding, and toxic spills, which pose an
			 immediate and significant threat to life, health, property, or water or
			 riparian resources.
(8) "Management
			 Activity" means an activity in a riparian area which is planned and undertaken
			 to extract, manipulate, or control natural resources or natural processes.
			 Management activities include but are not limited to timber harvest,
			 reforestation, road construction or reconstruction, spraying of herbicides or
			 pesticides, grazing, mining, or cultivation.
(9) "Mitigation" means the reduction of
			 adverse effects of a proposed project or activity by considering, in the
			 following order:
(a) Avoiding the impact
			 altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action;
(b) Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree
			 or magnitude of the action and its implementation;
(c) Rectifying the impact by repairing,
			 rehabilitating or restoring the affected environments;
(d) Reducing or eliminating the impact over
			 time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action
			 by monitoring and taking appropriate corrective measures; and
(e) Compensating for the impact by replacing
			 or providing conditions of comparable substitute value.