DRAFT Instream Flow
Preliminary Draft for Public Comment – Ecology is requesting input from affected stakeholders and the public on this preliminary draft rule language. Ecology will not prepare written responses to the input received on this early version of the rule. Ecology will prepare written responses to the comments received after the proposed rule language is filed with the State Code Reviser. Download the entire document for the full text. Below are overviews of the proposed new language in the WAC sections.
Ecology Spokane River Instream Flow FAQs 1411001
Focus on Spokane River Flows 1311001
Chapter 173-557 WAC – Water Resource Management Program for the Spokane River and Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) Aquifer.
WAC Sections
- 173-557 -010 – Authority and Purpose
- 173-557-020 – Applicability
- 173-557-030 – Definitions
- 173-557 -040 – Stream management units
- 173-557-050 -Instream Flows
- 173-557-060 – Future new uses of water
- 173-557-070 – Changes and transfers of existing water rights
- 173-557-080 – Compliance and enforcement
- 173-557-090 – Appeals
- 173-557-100 – Regulation review
- 173-557 -110 – Map of the rule area with control points