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Chapter 173-512 WAC
Last Update: 6/9/88
INSTREAM RESOURCES PROTECTION PROGRAM—CHAMBERS-CLOVER CREEKS BASIN, WATER RESOURCE INVENTORY AREA (WRIA) 12
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173-512-010
Authority.
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173-512-020
Purpose.
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173-512-030
Surface water closures.
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173-512-040
Groundwater.
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173-512-050
Future rights.
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173-512-060
Exemptions.
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173-512-070
Enforcement.
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173-512-075
Appeals.
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173-512-080
Regulation review.
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173-512-010
Authority.
This chapter is promulgated pursuant to chapter
90.54
RCW (Water Resources Act of 1971), chapter
90.22
RCW (minimum water flow and levels), and in accordance with chapter
173-500
WAC (water resources management program).
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-010, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-020
Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to retain perennial rivers, streams, and lakes in the Chambers-Clover creeks drainage basin with instream flows and levels necessary to provide for preservation and protection of wildlife, fish, scenic, aesthetic and other environmental values, recreational and navigational values, and to preserve water quality.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-020, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-030
Surface water closures.
The department of ecology, having determined that further consumptive appropriations would harmfully impact instream values closes the following streams and lakes in Water Resource Inventory Area 12 to further consumptive appropriations:
surface water closures
Stream or Lake
Tributary to
Chambers Creek
and all tributaries, including
among others:
Puget Sound
Leach Creek
Chambers Creek
Flett Creek
Chambers Creek
Steilacoom Lake
Chambers Creek
Ponce De Leon Creek
Steilacoom Lake
Clover Creek
and all tributaries, including
among others:
North Fork Clover Creek
Clover Creek
Spanaway Creek
Clover Creek
Morey Creek
Clover Creek
Spanaway Lake
Spanaway Creek
Tule Lake
Spanaway Creek
Unnamed Stream (Crystal Springs Creek)
including tributaries
Sequalitchew Creek
and all tributaries, including
among others:
Puget Sound
Puget Sound
Sequalitchew Lake
Sequalitchew Creek
American Lake
Sequalitchew Lake
Murray Creek
(and tributaries)
American Lake
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-030, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-040
Groundwater.
In future permitting actions relating to groundwater withdrawals, the natural interrelationship of surface and groundwaters shall be fully considered in water allocation decisions to assure compliance with the intent of this chapter.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-040, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-050
Future rights.
No water rights for consumptive uses of waters from the streams and lakes listed in WAC
173-512-030
shall hereafter be granted. Future rights for nonconsumptive uses may be granted subject to the provisions of this chapter.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-050, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-060
Exemptions.
(1) Nothing in this chapter shall affect any existing water rights, riparian, appropriative, or otherwise, existing on the effective date of this chapter; nor shall it affect existing rights relating to the operation of any navigation, hydroelectric or water storage reservoir or related facilities.
(2) Stock watering use, except that related to feed lots, shall be exempt from the surface water closures established in this chapter.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-060, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-070
Enforcement.
In enforcement of this chapter, the department of ecology may impose such sanctions as appropriate under authorities vested in it, including but not limited to the issuance of regulatory orders under RCW
43.27A.190
and civil penalties under RCW
90.03.600
.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
43.21B
, 43.27A, 90.22 and
90.54
RCW. WSR 88-13-037 (Order 88-11), § 173-512-070, filed 6/9/88. Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-070, filed 12/12/79.]
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173-512-075
Appeals.
All final written decisions of the department of ecology pertaining to permits, regulatory orders, and related decisions made pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to review by the pollution control hearings board in accordance with chapter
43.21B
RCW.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
43.21B
, 43.27A, 90.22 and
90.54
RCW. WSR 88-13-037 (Order 88-11), § 173-512-075, filed 6/9/88.]
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173-512-080
Regulation review.
The department of ecology shall initiate a review of the rules established in this chapter whenever new information, changing conditions, or statutory modifications make it necessary to consider revisions.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters
43.21B
, 43.27A, 90.22 and
90.54
RCW. WSR 88-13-037 (Order 88-11), § 173-512-080, filed 6/9/88. Statutory Authority: Chapters
90.22
and
90.54
RCW. WSR 80-01-012 (Order 79-23), § 173-512-080, filed 12/12/79.]
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