OAR 690-502-0130
Tualatin River Subbasin
(1)
Surface water classification:(a)
The following streams and tributaries are withdrawn from further appropriation except for storage, unless otherwise indicated, by order of the State Engineer on the specified dates:(A)
Unnamed stream flowing through Sections 10, 15, and 21, Township 1 South, Range 3 West, Willamette Meridian, tributary to the Tualatin River, by order dated August 13, 1951;(B)
Unnamed stream flowing through Sections 32, 33, 34 and 35, Township 1 North, Range 3 West, Willamette Meridian, tributary to Dairy Creek, by order dated July 25, 1951;(C)
Unnamed stream, known locally as Burris Creek, flowing through northeast part of Township 2 South, Range 3 West, Willamette Meridian, and Sections 5 and 6, Township 2 South, Range 2 West, Willamette Meridian, tributary to the Tualatin River, by order dated July 25, 1951;(D)
Unnamed stream flowing in the south part of Township 1 South, Range 2 West, Willamette Meridian, tributary to the Tualatin River, by order dated August 4, 1950;(E)
Unnamed stream flowing through Sections 19, 29, 30, 31 and 32, Township 1 South, Range 3 West, Willamette Meridian, tributary to the Tualatin River, by order dated August 8, 1950;(F)
Clear Creek and Iler Creek west of the north-south line between Township 1 North, Ranges 4 and 5 West, being tributaries to Gales Creek for the exclusive use of the City of Forest Grove under permit 12034, by order dated March 2, 1936;(G)
Unnamed branch of Clear Creek within Sections 18, 19, 29 and 30, Township 1 North, Range 4 West, Willamette Meridian, for the exclusive of the City of Forest Grove under permit 13944 by order dated October 19, 1939.(b)
Except as specified in subsections (a) and (c) of this section, the Tualatin River and tributaries are classified for domestic, livestock, municipal, irrigation, industrial, agricultural, commercial, power in conjunction with storage, fish life, wildlife, recreation, pollution abatement, wetland enhancement and public instream uses from November 1 through April 30, and only for domestic, commercial use for customarily domestic purposes not to exceed 0.01 cfs, livestock, wetland enhancement and public instream uses from May 1 through October 31;(c)
The following streams and tributaries are classified year-round only for domestic, commercial use for customarily domestic purposes not to exceed 0.01 cfs, livestock and public instream uses:(A)
McFee Creek tributary to Tualatin River;(B)
Gales Creek tributary to Tualatin River;(C)
East Fork of Dairy Creek tributary to Dairy Creek;(D)
McKay Creek tributary to Dairy Creek;(E)
Scoggins Creek tributary to Tualatin River.(2)
For the purpose of maintaining a minimum perennial streamflow sufficient to support aquatic life and to minimize pollution and of attaining the highest and best use of waters released from storage, no appropriations of water except for domestic or livestock uses or waters to be legally stored or legally released from storage shall be made or granted by any state agency or public corporation of the state for the following waters and as shown in Table 1.(3)
The Tualatin River or its tributaries above USGS-State Engineer Gage 14207500 (SW 1⁄4 Section 34, Township 2 South, Range 1 East) at West Linn, Oregon, in the amounts specified in Table 1.
Source:
Rule 690-502-0130 — Tualatin River Subbasin, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=690-502-0130.