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Section 3
Water Quality Conditions

3.4.2 Transfers of Overlying Rights for Service by an Appropriator

The Judgment, under Part III, Paragraph 3, provides that to the extent an Overlying Party
request water service from an Appropriator Party, and uses its adjudicated water rights to
obtain said service; an equivalent volume of groundwater shall be reserved for the
Appropriator Party providing the service to the Overlying Party. Further, Section 7 of the Rules
and Regulations indicates that both the Overlying and Appropriator will file a Notice of
Adjustments of Rights with Watermaster within 30 days after entering a service agreement.

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 process of converting Overlying Water Rights from Oak Valley Partners to YVWD’s
Appropriative Rights consists of the following five steps:

1. Consolidation and Identification of Overlying Water Rights to Specific Parcels – This step is
completed when Resolution 17-02 was adopted by Watermaster on August 30, 2017.

2. Transfer of Overlying Water Rights to an Appropriator – This step involves a letter from the
Developer to the Appropriator. This transfer letter documents the relinquishment of
production rights by the Overlyer in exchange for water service.

3. Acceptance of Overlying Water Rights by the Appropriator – This step involves formal
action by YV WD’s Board as the legislative body of the Appropriator.
4. Notice of Acceptance of Overlying Water Rights by the Appropriator. This step involves a
letter to the Watermaster from YVWD notify them of the transfer.
5. Execution of a Development Agreement – A development agreement is executed by the
Appropriator based on the completion of the four steps above.

In 2018 Oak Valley Partners transferred a combined total of 180.4 ac-ft in Overlying Rights to
YVWD to serve certain parcels in the Beaumont Basin. Transfers are as follows:

Assigned Overlying-Appropriative Watermaster Earmarked
Right Notification Date Amount (ac-ft)

Assignment No. 1 3/28/2018 90.94
Assignment No. 2 8/1/2018 59.89

Assignment No. 3 10/3/2018 29.57
Total 180.40

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