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March 2005 - Lower Rock Creek at Wolf Hollow
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The Oregon Water Resources Department has 20 watermaster offices statewide. A watermaster´s job, during the summer months, is to regulate the use of water among all the users. Regulation is done according to the date of priority - or the date an irrigator originally was granted the authority to use water. Some priority dates go back into the middle 1800´s and some dates are as recent as this year. Irrigators with the oldest priority dates get their water first, and if there is water left over the younger prioirty dates are allowed to have water. This year, in many locations, only irrigators with the earliesat prioirty dates will have sufficient water to meet their needs.
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Willow Creek - just east of Ione
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The water you see is for the remains of a call for a 1892 priority date. On March 10, 2005, it was deemed unusable by the watermaster for the 1892 priority date. On March 16, 2005, the priority date was moved to 1880.
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