Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-545 - Instream resources protection program - Wenatchee River basin, water resource inventory area (WRIA) 45 › Section 173-545-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
				shall be used:
(1)
"Allocation"
means the designation of specific amounts of water
			 for specific beneficial uses.
(2)
"Appropriation"
means the process of legally acquiring the right
			 to specific amounts of water for beneficial uses, as consistent with the
			 requirements of the ground and surface water codes and other applicable water
			 resource statutes.
(3)
"Beneficial uses"
means uses of water for domestic, stock
			 watering, industrial, commercial, agricultural, irrigation, hydroelectric power
			 production, mining, fish and wildlife maintenance and enhancement,
			 recreational, thermal power production, and preservation of environmental and
			 aesthetic values, and all other uses compatible with the enjoyment of the
			 public waters of the state.
(4)
"Consumptive use"
means a use of water whereby there is a
			 diminishment of the overall amount or quality of water in the water
			 source.
(5)
"Closure"
means a finding by the department that no water is available for future
			 appropriations. WAC
			 173-545-100 identifies the
			 periods when, and in what quantities, water may be available for future
			 appropriation. If the maximum allocation is zero, no water is available.
			 Practically, it means a permit to appropriate water for a beneficial use will
			 not be approved from a stream or aquifer that results in a diminishment of the
			 stream or aquifer during any period of time that water is unavailable and,
			 unless otherwise excepted, no water is available for new or expanded exempt
			 withdrawals under
			 RCW
			    90.44.050.
(6)
"Department"
means the
			 Washington state department of ecology.
(7)
"Domestic water use"
means,
			 for the purposes of the reservation of water in this chapter, use of water
			 associated with human health and welfare requirements, including water used for
			 drinking, bathing, sanitary purposes, cooking, laundering, and other incidental
			 household uses.
(8)
"Existing
			 water right"
includes perfected riparian rights, federal Indian and
			 non-Indian reserved rights or other perfected and inchoate appropriative
			 rights.
(9)
"Hydraulic
			 continuity"
means the interrelation between groundwater (water beneath
			 land surfaces or surface water bodies) and surface water (water above ground,
			 such as lakes and streams).
(10)
"Instream flow"
as used in this chapter, has the same meaning as a
			 minimum instream flow under chapter 90.82 RCW, a base flow under
			 chapter
			 90.54 RCW, a minimum flow
			 under chapter 90.03
			 or 90.22 RCW, or management flow in the Wenatchee watershed plan. The instream
			 flow constitutes a water right under
			 chapter
			 90.03 RCW.
(11)
"Irrigation associated with a
			 residence"
means irrigation of not more than one-half acre of lawn or
			 garden per dwelling.
(12)
"Nonconsumptive use"
means a type of water use where either there
			 is no withdrawal from a water source or there is no diminishment in the overall
			 amount or quality of water in the water source.
(13)
"Plan"
or
"watershed
			 plan"
means the Wenatchee watershed management plan, approved by the
			 Wenatchee watershed planning unit on April 26, 2006, and by the Chelan County
			 commissioners on June 26, 2006.
(14)
"Planning unit"
means the
			 Wenatchee watershed planning unit (WWPU), or a successor approved by the WWPU.
			 The WWPU was established in 1999 in accordance with chapter 90.82 RCW,
			 Watershed Planning Act. The WWPU presently consists of the main planning unit,
			 the steering committee, several technical subcommittees (e.g., water
			 quantity/instream flow, habitat, water quality, growth and land use, outreach),
			 and other interested stakeholders.
(15)
"Public water system"
means
			 any system providing water for human consumption through pipes or other
			 constructed conveyances, excluding a system serving only one single-family
			 residence and a system with four or fewer connections all of which serve
			 residences on the same farm. Water use shall be consistent with WAC
			 246-290-020 or as it may be
			 recodified.
(16)
"Reservation"
means an allocation of water set aside for future
			 domestic use, municipal use, and stock water use (except feedlots). For the
			 purposes of this chapter, the reservation is not subject to the instream flows
			 set in WAC
			 173-545-050 and
			 173-545-060. "Reservation" is the
			 same as "reserve" and "reserved water" in the Wenatchee watershed management
			 plan.
(17)
"Stock
			 water"
means the use of water by animals consistent with the Chelan
			 County Code, Section
			 11.88.030. It does not apply to
			 feedlots and other activities which are not related to normal grazing land
			 uses.
(18)
"Stream management
			 unit"
means a stream segment, reach, or tributary used to describe the
			 part of the relevant stream to which a particular use, action, instream flow
			 level or reservation of water applies. Each of these units contains a control
			 station. A map of the control points is included in this chapter (WAC
			 173-545-170).
(19)
"Withdrawal"
means the
			 extraction of groundwater or diversion of surface water.
(20)
"WRIA"
means water resource
			 inventory area. This term can be used interchangeably with "basin" and
			 "watershed."
Statutory Authority: Chapters 90.82,
				  90.54, 90.22,
				  90.03, and
				  90.44 RCW. 08-01-045 (Order 07-06),
				  § 173-545-030, filed 12/12/07, effective 1/12/08. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapters
				  90.54, 90.22 and 75.20
				  RCW. 83-13-016 (Order DE 83-8), § 173-545-030, filed
				  6/3/83.