California Water Rights Violations
This list includes detail information for each violation record as stored in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. Each row is represent the unique violation record and the associated investigations and the associated water right Application ID (unique identifier for a water right). Not all investigations are associated to a water right so there may not be any water right associated to the investigation and one investigation may be associated with multiple points of investigations and multiple water right IDs. This file is in flat file LONG format and does not include all the information associated to a water right such all uses and seasons. Other information may be available in the associated flat files for each category.
Data files
| Data title and description | Access data | File details | Last updated |
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California Water Rights Violations This list includes detail information for each violation record as stored in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. Each row is represent the unique violation record and the associated investigations and the associated water right Application ID (unique identifier for a water right). Not all investigations are associated to a water right so there may not be any water right associated to the investigation and one investigation may be associated with multiple points of investigations and multiple water right IDs. This file is in flat file LONG format and does not include all the information associated to a water right such all uses and seasons. Other information may be available in the associated flat files for each category. | Download | CSV 2.02 MB | 11/18/21 |
Supporting files
| Data title and description | Access data | File details | Last updated |
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DATA DICTIONARY WATER RIGHTS VIOLATIONS The Water Rights Violations 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 14.96 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 the VIOLATION_ID. Each violation is associated with one investigation and can also associated with multiple inspections, inspect multiple Points of Investigation (POI), be associated with multiple enforcement actions and can also be associated with none, one or many water rights id. Violation types include Curtailment, Failure to File Initial or Supp. Statement, Failure to pay fees, Failure to Report Permit/License/Reg/Cert, Failure to submit monitoring report or studies, Insufficient Documentation of Right, Misuse of Water, Non use of water, Non-compliance with minimum flow requirements by order/policy/regulation, Other, Public Trust Impact, Term 91 Violation, Term 93 Violation, Threat of unauthorized diversion, Unauthorized direct diversion (amount or season), Unauthorized storage, Violation of Permit or License Term, Violation of Place of Use. In most cases one to many relationships are resolved by providing an aggregate of the values, the most relevant or recent value, or a reduced number of the most relevant values in the dataset. Associated water rights information is provided on separate files. 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.
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