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Bill would let missed pre‑code water users join Nooksack adjudication; Ecology and local irrigation board back effort
Summary
Substitute Senate Bill 5212 would allow filing an adjudication claim in Water Resource Inventory Area 1 to satisfy past statement‑of‑claim registration requirements, enabling some unregistered pre‑code water users to participate in the Nooksack general adjudication.
The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee heard testimony March 19 on Substitute Senate Bill 5212, a measure aimed at broadening access to the general adjudication that Ecology filed last year for Water Resource Inventory Area 1 (the Nooksack Basin).
Lily Smith, committee staff, explained that historically the legislature opened a statewide water‑right claim registry in limited periods (1967, 1985 and 1997) and that failing to file during those windows generally waived…
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