Establishment of instream flows.
(1) Stream management units and associated control stations are established as follows:
STREAM MANAGEMENT UNIT INFORMATION |
Control Station No. Stream Management Unit Name | Control Station by River Mile and Section, Township, and Range | Affected Stream Reach(es) |
12-0965.00 Upper Puyallup River | 12.2 25-20-4E | Confluence with Puyallup River to the headwaters including all tributaries |
12-0957.00 Carbon River | 0.1 13-19-4E | From the confluence with the White River to the headwaters including all tributaries, excluding the Carbon River. |
12-1015.00 Lower Puyallup River | 6.6 20-20N-R4E | From the influence of mean annual high tide at low base flow levels to the confluence with the White River including all tributaries and excluding the White River. |
(2) Instream flows are established for the stream management units in WAC 173-510-030(1) as follows:
INSTREAM FLOWS IN THE PUYALLUP RIVER BASIN |
| (cubic feet per second) | | |
Month | Day | 12-0965.00 Puyallup River (At Alderton) | 12-1015.00 Puyallup River | 12-0957.00 Carbon River |
Jan | 1 | | 700 | | 1400 | | 600 | |
| 15 | | 700 | | 1400 | | 550 | |
Feb | 1 | | 750 | | 1400 | | 550 | |
| 15 | | 800 | | 1500 | | 550 | |
Mar | 1 | | 800 | | 1600 | | 550 | |
| 15 | | 850 | | 1700 | | 550 | |
Apr | 1 | | 900 | | 1800 | | 600 | |
| 15 | | 950 | | 1900 | | 700 | |
May | 1 | | 950 | | 2000 | | 900 | |
| 15 | | 1000 | | 2000 | | 900 | |
Jun | 1 | | 1050 | | 2000 | | 600 | |
| 15 | | 1050 | | 2000 | | 500 | |
Jul | 1 | | 1050 | | 2000 | | 450 | |
| 15 | | 1050 | | 1750 | | 400 | |
Aug | 1 | | 900 | | 1500 | | 350 | |
| 15 | | 800 | | 1300 | | 350 | |
Sep | 1 | | 600 | | 1150 | | 350 | |
| 15 | | 500 | | 1000 | | 350 | |
Oct | 1 | | 500 | | 1000 | | 350 | |
| 15 | | 500 | | 1000 | | 550 | |
Nov | 1 | | 600 | | 1000 | | 550 | |
| 15 | | 700 | | 1100 | | 600 | |
Dec | 1 | | 700 | | 1200 | | 700 | |
| 15 | | 700 | | 1300 | | 700 | |
(3) Instream flow hydrographs, as represented in the document entitled "Puyallup River basin instream resource protection program," shall be used for definition of instream flows on those days not specifically identified in WAC 173-510-030(2).
(4) All consumptive water rights hereafter established shall be expressly, subject to instream flows established in WAC 173-510-030 (1) through (3).
(5) At such time as the department of fisheries and/or department of wildlife and the department of ecology shall agree that additional stream management units should be identified other than those specified in WAC 173-510-030(1), the department of ecology shall identify additional control stations and management units on streams and tributaries within the basin and shall further protect instream flows where possible for those stations as provided in chapters
90.22 and
90.54 RCW.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
43.21B, 43.27A, 90.22 and
90.54 RCW. WSR 88-13-037 (Order 88-11), § 173-510-030, filed 6/9/88. Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22 and
90.54 RCW. WSR 80-04-047 (Order DE 79-31), § 173-510-030, filed 3/21/80.]