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The new Water Sustainability Act was enforced on February 26, 2016 and under the new rules all non-domestic groundwater wells need to be licensed. Only single-family households using groundwater for domestic use are exempt from licensing.
The deadline to submit an existing use groundwater license application and avoiding the application fees is December 31, 2017. Submitting a groundwater license application ensures that applicants keep their priority date, which is based on the first time the groundwater was used by the applicant.
Existing users have three years to apply for a license and secure their priority date. If there were ever a time of drought and limitations are put on groundwater use by the government, senior licensees would have precedence over junior licensees to use groundwater.
If you apply for a license after March 1, 2019, you will be considered a New Applicant. As a New Applicant you will be required to pay the application fee and your priority date will be the date the application was submitted.
If you have any questions regarding the Water Sustainability Act and how the regulations affect you, please contact wsa@waterlineresources.com or at
250-585-0802.