California Water Rights Status History
This list includes detail information for the Status History of each water right as stored in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. Each row is a unique combination of the water right Application ID (unique identifier for a water right) and status combination. It shows the the status of the application ID at the associated effective date. For example, an application id can have a status of "Permited" on 01/01/2001 and a status of "Licensed" as 01/01/2002, there would be two rows on the dataset with the same application id with different status. The list include basic summary information about the Water Right record, such as the type and status, the location of the Points of Diversion, the amount of water allowed (Face Value), and summary data associated with the electronic Water Right record. This file is in flat file LONG format and may 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 Status History This list includes detail information for the Status History of each water right as stored in the State Water Resources Control Board's "Electronic Water Rights Information Management System" (EWRIMS) database. Each row is a unique combination of the water right Application ID (unique identifier for a water right) and status combination. It shows the the status of the application ID at the associated effective date. For example, an application id can have a status of "Permited" on 01/01/2001 and a status of "Licensed" as 01/01/2002, there would be two rows on the dataset with the same application id with different status. The list include basic summary information about the Water Right record, such as the type and status, the location of the Points of Diversion, the amount of water allowed (Face Value), and summary data associated with the electronic Water Right record. This file is in flat file LONG format and may 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 63.48 MB | 11/15/21 |
Supporting files
| Data title and description | Access data | File details | Last updated |
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Water Rights Status History DATA DICTIONARY The Water Rights Status History data dictionary includes detail description of every data element. Provides a description of each data element, the format, examples, known issues, application to type of water right and a classification and categorization of the data element. | XLSX 29.49 KB | 11/15/21 | |
Data Dictionary Type and Status of Water Rights This is a detail description of the types of water rights listed. | DOCX 32.81 KB | 11/15/21 |
More details
Additional Information: The unique identifier for the dataset is the combination of the water right Application ID (unique identifier for a water right) and the status. It shows the status of the application ID at the associated effective date. For example, an application id can have a status of "Permited" on 01/01/2001 and a status of "Licensed" as 01/01/2002, there would be two rows on the dataset with the same application id with different status. 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. It does not include the water used for Irrigation, that information is provided on a separate file. 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 veryfied 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 water right or application and each status change combination
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