THE STONY CREEK WATER WARS
Glenn County - Tehama County - Colusa County , California.
(c) 2001, Mike Barkley

The Stony Creek Underflow, 6,700,000 acre-feet of fresh water wasted by the Orland Project?

[this compilation is in progress]

Underflow included in the Decree? Comments in various Stony Creek Channelization plans: "Known and definite channels" question, California Water Code Section 1200 and the availability for appropriation of underflows -- the Stony Creek underflow channel is "known and definite" in all places above Black Butte per the arguments expressed in the SWRCB comments quoted in the Stonyford municipal water supply case, including in Colusa County Superior Court and U.S. District Court. As for below Black Butte, at least the upper end of that channel is "known and definite", leaving the only question being at what point is it sufficiently diffused to not be "known and definite" - would that be the point at which the flow exits from Stony Creek Fan alluvium or at least the distinctive Stony Creek gravel deposits?

With the 1906 memoranda, and the 1977 approval of funding for 42 OUWUA wells, is this underflow properly chargeable to the Orland Project, and thus is the Project chargeable with wasting 6,700,000 acre-feet of water while upstream riparians suffer in thirst?

Other waste?
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--Mike Barkley, 161 N. Sheridan Ave. #1, Manteca, CA 95336 (H) 209/823-4817
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