THE STONY CREEK WATER WARS
Glenn County - Tehama County - Colusa County , California.
(c) 2009, Mike Barkley
PROTESTS AND THEIR DISPOSITIONS IN SWRCB AP. 18115
[Compiled from the sources indicated.
Important because shows the extent to which the Division of Water Rights
is biased against protestants despite the equivalency of Applicants and
Protestants in the State Codes
Protests (Correspondence vol. 1, inside front cover):
060861 Glenn-Colusa ID answered 071261
071161 Dept. of Fish & Game 072561 withdrawn 121261
072661 Stony Cr. Water Users Association 080761
062661 Sacramento River & Delta Water Association 080461
070595 CSPA 080195
071495 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 08011995
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06/08/1961 F Protest Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, went to hearing, D1100?
07/11/1961 F Protest, Department of Fish and Game, withdrawn 11/27/1961
07/25/1961 letter atty McDonough protest of "Stony Creek Water Users Association" [one of these was the environmental protest], went to hearing, D1100?
07/26/1961 F Protest Hattie M. Asdell 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Fred W. Barnett & Thelma M. Barnett, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Earle & Naomi Briggs, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Jane E. Budkley, U.M. Buckley & L.S. Buckley 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Thomas G. Burket 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest F.M. Burrows et al. 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Manual M. Candeias 07/24/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Clyde E. or Nellie Cushman 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest F.B. Cushman & Camille Cushman, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Eugene M. Davilla 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Lee Ellis & Harriet E. Ellis [?] 06/28/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Leo E. Flood, Nelle O. Flood, & L.H. Flood 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Claude D. & Velma M. Gillaspy 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest LaVerne L. Gillaspy 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Danial A. Gilman, Kathleen L. Gilman & Alessandra M. Gilman 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest James D. Grady 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Lawrence B. & Clarie L. Groteguth 07/01/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Ella Aileen Hamilton 06/30/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Coburn Haskell 07/15/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Richard E. Holmes & Helen V. Holmes 06/28/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Robert W. Howard 07/20/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Alex. Johnson, agent of H.W. & P.M. Jamieson, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Maynard Johnson, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Dorothy M. Judy aka Dorothy M. Cauhape 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Elaine G. Kerns, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Lenus Landberg 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Orlif Landberg & Phyllis Landberg 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Anita Malerbi & Aldo Malerbi 07/14/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Norman G. Manson & Mabel I. Manson, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Lewis A. & Frances C. Marbet, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest F.P. Masterson & Florence Masterson 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Alvin C. & Kitty C. Millsaps, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Bernie L. & Lou Ann Millsaps 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Robert B. Millsaps 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Lawrence Moore 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Kenneth Niesen 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest J.L. Nordyke & Mildred W. Nordyke 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Sam F. Paletta 07/19/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Florencio Pozas & Isabel Pozas 07/10/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Quiet Hills Ranch Co., Charles S. Wheeler Jr., President 07/08/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Walter Reed 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Paul D. & Joan Rogers 07/04/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Warren & Elsa Sandstrom 07/20/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Elmer Silver, Jr. 07/19/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Albert T. & Roberta E. Smith 07/08/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest H.N. Smith & Altha Smith, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Albert R. & Mary A. Soeth 06/30/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest John B. & Anna May Soeth 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest John A. Thompson, Jr., & Pauli S. Thompson 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Theo J. Weissich & Shirley Weissich 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Lucille F. Westcamp 06/29/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Christine F. Wheeler, Simpson Finnell, Jr., Zeller F. Rosson, Elizabeth F. Harrington 07/06/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest William H. Whyler, Ellsworth H. Whyler, Hazel Whyler, Gladys Whyler 07/05/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Willis E. Wilson & LaVesta Wilson 07/17/1961, rejected 08/17/1961, 1) upstream, 2) storing water without permit
07/26/1961 F Protest Sacramento River and Delta Water Association, 07/26/1961, went to hearing?, D1100?
07/26/1961 F Protest Edna L. Knight 07/24/1961 - rejected 08/17/1961, upstream
07/26/1961 F Protest E.A. Wright 07/25/1961 - rejected 08/17/1961, upstream
10/26/1962 Approval for Signature, Water Right Permit, Ap. 18115, Permit 13776, protests dismissed by D-1100 /s/ ?loy D. Johnson
04/11/1963 memo Carah/CWC to J. Robert Burton, Deputy Atty General re Sacramento River and Delta Water Association v. California Water Commission, Sacto County Superior #126921; McDonough renewing Association protest made in that suit within 18115 request by Reclamation to restore deleted diversions to 18115, urge early resolution of it in the courts?
07/12/1989 letter Pettit/SWRCB to Emrick/Colusa County Water District, re: Reclamation petition for changes and extension of time to Complete Use of water under Permit 12721 (application 5626) and 18 other permits, 20 day protest period re-opening for CCWD [so what happened?]
02/08/1993 Public Trust Protest and Public Trust Complaint by California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, rejected 04/23/1993 as incomplete [no notice
to Baiocchi per 11/04/1993 letter ]
02/23/1993 [ 02/22/1993 ? -- ] Protest, GCID, Reclamation Rediversion to Stony Creek at T-C Canal intersection, interference with recharge & with GCID Angle rights; Environmental Concerns filing, withdrawn by 02/14/1994 Somach letter, is that the same protest?
Other Issues (Section 2) Attachment (Re: Environmental Considerations)
01/31/1994 protest, Baiocchi/CSPA ; NEPA documents required prior to proposed action, not after it is implemented; Reclamation violating California F & G Code 5937 in that permit "13776 does not contain mandatory daily flow requirements to protect the public trust resources of Stony Creek from Black Butte Dam to the Sacramento River", many days of zero flows 1970 - 1992; Black Butte adding to stored water outside of permitted storage season ,, dismissed as settled 02/29/1996 ?
06/16/1995 memo Meroney/Div Water Rights to files; EA may not be -
circulated & approved until after the protest period passes? extend the
protest period? no, let people protest & ask for extensions. [Tsk.]
06/29/1995 Baiocchi Protest for CSPA re Reclamation petition for permanent point of rediversion; suspended 09/13/1995 during discussions?, dismissed as settled 02/29/1996 ?
071195 Medlin/USFWS to Meroney/SWRCB, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Protest Regarding the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Petition for a
Permanent Point of Rediversion on Stony Creek, Glenn County, dismissed as settled 02/29/1996 ?
UNDATED Protest USFWS, adverse impacts, not addressed in USBR EA, FONSI is wrong, project different, impacts in attachment, mitigation conditions in attachment [same protest? different protest?], dismissed as settled 02/29/1996 ?
071895 Contact Report Nick Villa/DFG called Meroney/SWRCB, will back USFWS protest, plus favors only a temporary permit, rejected 08/01/1995 as not timely
071895 Contact Report Andy Hitchings/DeCuir & Somach to Meroney/SWRCB Order 04/1994 protect GCID prior water rights? Nope, forgot it. Asked that it be included in any Order for the petition change, told him to put it in writing & a late protest OK [preferential treatment?], settled per 08/04/1995 letter
012996 letter Medlin/USFWS to Anton/Div WRights, concerned about dismissing the protest until environmental reviews are completed,
Summary of Protests & Dispositions
Rejected - 58
Withdrawn - 2
Dismissed by D-1100 - 3
Settled - 4
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Total - 67
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