California Water Rights Points of Investigation List
This list includes detail information about every Point of Investigation (POI) water rights record in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. A Point of Investigation is the geographic area associated to a water right investigation. POI is a location of interest during an investigation and there may be several POIs in an investigation. Generally, POIs can be permit/license/statement PODs, places of use, point of alleged unauthorized diversion, place of alleged unauthorized use. Each row in the dataset corresponds with a unique Point of Investigation ID and its associated data. The list include basic summary information about the Water Right Investigation record, such as the type and status, the location of the Point of Investigation, the inspections and summary data associated with the electronic Water Right record. This file is in flat file format and may not include all information associated to a water right such all uses and seasons or the amounts reported used for every month. That information may be available in the associated flat files for each category.
Data files
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California Water Rights Points of Investigation List This list includes detail information about every Point of Investigation (POI) water rights record in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. A Point of Investigation is the geographic area associated to a water right investigation. POI is a location of interest during an investigation and there may be several POIs in an investigation. Generally, POIs can be permit/license/statement PODs, places of use, point of alleged unauthorized diversion, place of alleged unauthorized use. Each row in the dataset corresponds with a unique Point of Investigation ID and its associated data. The list include basic summary information about the Water Right Investigation record, such as the type and status, the location of the Point of Investigation, the inspections and summary data associated with the electronic Water Right record. This file is in flat file format and may not include all information associated to a water right such all uses and seasons or the amounts reported used for every month. That information may be available in the associated flat files for each category. | Download | CSV 6.69 MB | 11/18/21 |
Supporting files
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Data Dictionary Water Rights Points of Investigation The Water Rights Points of Investigation data dictionary includes detail description of every data element provided, the format, examples, known issues, application to type of water right and a classification. | Download | XLSX 14.85 KB | 11/18/21 |
Data Dictionary Type and Status of Water Rights This is a detail description of the types of water rights listed. | Download | DOCX 32.81 KB | 11/18/21 |
More details
Additional Information: The unique identifier for the dataset is "POI_ID". The dataset provides one record per point of investigation id and all the existing associated data to that record. In most cases one to many relationships are resoved by providing an aggegate of the values, the most relevant or recent value, or a reduced number of the most relevant values in the dataset. For example if a Point of Investigation has more than one inspection associated, the dataset includes details of the first three inspections with the most recent updated date. Limitations: “Use of this data is subject to the CA.gov Conditions of Use and any copyright and proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the individual files.” Data Methodology: The data is maintained in the eWRIMS database by authorized staff in the Division of Water Rights and is an electronic representation of the actual legal water right documents. Some of the data records may not be complete or up to date. Some of the data is directly reported by the Water Right holders and may have not been reviewed or verified for accuracy and completeness (QAQC).
State of California. The data can be filtered by spatial references such as Latitude and Longitude, County, Hydrologic Units (HUC), etc.
Information per Point of Diversion
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