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Division of Water Resources updates committee on impairment rules, LEMA changes, Quivira progress and interstate monitoring
Summary
Chief Engineer Earl Lewis updated the Committee on Water about recent and pending DWR rule changes (impairment regs, LEMA allocations, flow meters, change-of-point rules), agency workload metrics, dam inspection backlogs and coordination with GMDs under statutory deadlines for action plans due July 1, 2026.
Earl Lewis, chief engineer at the Division of Water Resources, briefed the Committee on Water on a range of regulatory and operational matters, including finalized impairment regulations, drafts for LEMA fixed‑allocation rules, flow meter updates and change‑of‑point-of‑diversion guidance.
Lewis said DWR revised impairment regulations to clarify that the chief engineer — not individual senior water‑rights holders — carries the primary responsibility for determining impairment, and that those regulations became effective in mid‑December. On LEMAs, Lewis said DWR revised drafts after stakeholder comments; a key debate was whether to use individual historic use to…
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