West Coast Basin Amended Judgment: III

III. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS - WATER RIGHTS ADJUDICATED  

A. Certain of the Parties and/or their successors in interest are the owners of Adjudicated Rights to extract water from the Basin, which Adjudicated Rights are of the same legal force and effect and without priority with reference to each other. The amount of such Adjudicated Rights, stated in acre-feet per year, of each of these Parties, as of the date of this Amended Judgment, is set forth in Exhibit A to this Amended Judgment and is hereby declared  and established accordingly. Provided, however, that the Adjudicated Rights so declared and  established shall be subject to the condition that the water produced, when used, shall be put to  beneficial use through reasonable methods of use and reasonable methods of diversion; and  provided further that the exercise of all of said Adjudicated Rights shall be subject to a pro rata  reduction, if such reduction is required, to preserve said Basin as a common source of water  supply.  

B. Certain of the Parties have no Adjudicated Rights to extract water from the Basin. The name of each of said Parties, as of the date of this Amended Judgment, is listed in Exhibit A with a zero following its name, and the absence of such Adjudicated Rights in said Parties is hereby established and declared.  

C. As provided in Exhibit B to this Judgment, there is hereby established a "non-consumptive water use right" in the Basin, which is subordinate to the Adjudicated Rights set forth in Section III hereof and which right is exercisable only on specifically defined lands and cannot be separately conveyed or transferred apart therefrom.

D. As further provided in Exhibit B to this Judgment, any party herein may petition the Administrative Body, acting on behalf of the Watermaster, for a non-consumptive water use permit as part of a project to recover old refined oil or other pollutants that has leaked into the underground aquifers of the Basin.