Water Policy Interim Committee

• Water Research, Inventory and Monitoring, Montana Water Center
  
• HB 22 (2005): Adjudication Status
  
  • Basin location and adjudication status, May 2011
    
  • Basin location and adjudication status, September 2011
    
  • Basin location and adjudication status, January 2012
    
  • Basin location and adjudication status, March 2012
    
  • Basin location and adjudication status, May 2012
    
  • Basin location and adjudication status, July 2012
    
  • Basin location and adjudication status, September 2012
    
• Ground Water Information Program update, MBMG, June 2011
  
• Ground Water Investigation Program update, MBMG, September 2011
  
• Ground Water Investigation Program update, MBMG, January 2012
  
• State Water Projects update, Kevin Smith, DNRC
• DEQ litigation status report
  
• FWP litigation status report
  
• DNRC litigation status report
  
• Clark Fork Basin Task Force report
  
• Natural Resource Information System overview
  
• Saddle Creek Fire hydrology report
  
• Saddle Creek Fire - Watershed Response, Bruce Sims
  
• Renewable Resource Grant and Loan Program update
  
• Water right valuation report, DNRC
  
• Water access valuation report, DNRC
  

• Review of the Regulation of the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System During the Flood of 2011
  
• Montana Watershed Condition Classification
  

• Memo on water right call list
  
• Water right complaint history, DNRC
  
• Water Commissioner appointments
  
• Ditch Maintenance Court Decision
        — Seconday ditch easements after Musselshell Ranch Co. v. Seidel-Joukova
        — Musselshell Ranch Co., et al. v. Seidel-Joukova, et al.
  
• Standing in Water Right Adjudication
        — Standing to object to water right claims before the Montana Water Court
        — Montana Trout Unlimited v. Beaverhead Water Co., et al.
        — SB 356
        — Governor's veto letter
  

• Water Marketing and Mitigation in Washington, Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership
  
• Washington's Trust Water Program
  
• Yakima River Basin, Paul Jewell
  

HB 602 - Study Exempt Wells

• The Exemption: To change or not to change? draft study report
  
• HB 602
  
• Exempt well policy overview
  
• Exempt Well Statistics, DNRC
  
• Exempt Well Statistics, John Metesh, MBMG
  
• Exempt Well Issues in the West, Nathan Bracken
  
• General water use requirements, DNRC
  
• Ground water, exempt wells, and enforcing a water right through a call
  
• Previously discussed exempt well options
  
• Illustration of requirements for exempt and permitted wells
  
• North Hills Groundwater Models
  
• Can Mitigation Water Banking Play a Role in Montana’s Exempt Well Management?, Trout Unlimited
  
• Grass-Land and TimberWorks Subdivisions comparison, Casne & Associates, Inc.
• Twin Creeks Subdivision, Professional Consultants, Inc.
  
• Exempt Well Ideas
        Horse Creek proposed Controlled Groundwater Area, DNRC
        CSKT negotiation, proposed exempt well ordinance, RWRCC
        Trout Unlimited
  
• Water Rights Exempt from Filing
        Senator Brenden exempt claim letter
        Exempt from filing summary
  
• Physical Availability of Groundwater in the Eightmile and Threemile Creek Drainages
  
• See also Proposed Legislation
  

• SB 327
  
• Hydropower Feasibility Study, DNRC