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Section 3
Status of the Basin and Administration of the Judgment

Under Resolution 17-02, adopted on August 30, 2017, the Oak Valley Partners LP transferred all
of its Overlying rights to the YVWD to serve a number of parcels in the Beaumont Basin. The
Stipulated Judgment allocated OVP an overlying production right of 1,806 ac-ft based on the
initial Safe Yield of 8,650 ac-ft/yr. OVPs rights have been adjusted to 1,398.86 ac-ft based on
the recalculated Safe Yield of 6,700 ac-ft/yr as approved by the Watermaster on April 1, 2015.
Overlying rights and Overlying-Appropriative rights will be adjusted every 10 years based on the
recalculation of the Safe Yield of the Beaumont Basin.

The following table summarizes the transfer and conversion of Overlying Water Rights from an
Overlier Party to an Appropriative User. This table will be used to track the conversion of rights
as lands develop and begin being served by the Appropriators.

Description Resolution 17-02
9 Resolution Effective Date August 30, 2017

9 Overlyier water rights were transferred from Oak Valley Partners LP

9 Appropriator water rights were transferred to Yucaipa Valley Water District

9 Date that Overlier notifies Watermaster of To be determined
assignment of a quantity of Overlying water
rights to a project area
9 Date that Appropriators begins to provide water To be determined
service to the project area

9 Calculated quantity of water rights transferred To be determined
9 Remaining quantity of Overlying Water Rights 1,398.86 ac-ft/yr
not converted to an Overlying-Appropriative
Right

3.4.3 Allocation of Unused Overlying Water
Section 7.8 of the Rules and Regulations, adopted on September 9, 2008, by Watermaster,
outlines the process for distributing the volume of adjudicated water not produced by the
Overlying Parties to the Appropriators. Under this section, if an Overlying Party produces
less than five times of their share of the Safe Yield in any five-year period, the quantity of
groundwater not produced by that Overlying Party shall be made available for allocation to
the Appropriators. Transferring of unused production from Overlying Users does not diminish
their legal right to produce in subsequent years.

Since the inception of the Judgment, transfers of unused production by Overlying Users has
been made on a fiscal year basis coinciding with the preparation of the annual report.
Preparing the annual report on a calendar year basis required that the transfers of unused
production also be made on the same basis. Based on the five-year format used in the Rules

Beaumont Basin Watermaster 2017 Annual Report – DRAFT – February 2018 3-9