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 <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"kid-wr__leaf-wrap\">\n  <div class=\"kid-wr__leaf\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"Rights and contracts, an opening\">\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme kid-wr__rhyme--lead\"><span>One fire to try the water rights claims,<\/span><span>beside the anvil where the contracts were shaped to bear the water home.<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\">The State of Oregon decides who holds a water right, how old it is and how much it carries. Contracts decide who carries the water, through whose works, on what terms, and how contracts rank against one another.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <i class=\"kid-wr__fleuron\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme\"><span>By ditch and field the right was won,<\/span><span>by water put to use;<\/span><span>and long years after, before the State,<\/span><span>the claim was proven true.<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\">The United States gave notice of the Project appropriation on May 19, 1905, before Oregon's 1909 Water Rights Act created its formal permit process. Older rights were already there: Van Brimmer's of 1883 and Ankeny-Henley's of 1884, which the State later ranked ahead of the Project. A right vests when water is put to beneficial use, and the State determined the Project rights in the Klamath Basin Adjudication, in 2013 as corrected in 2014.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s24\">[24]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s28\">[28]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <i class=\"kid-wr__fleuron\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme\"><span>A ditch was dug and used of old,<\/span><span>before the Project came;<\/span><span>but White Lake failed, and south it reached<\/span><span>across a line in the tules.<\/span><span>Use alone is not enough:<\/span><span>a right must be proven where the State can reach.<\/span><span>Its water runs there still, but young,<\/span><span>without its elder date.<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\">The Adams Canal was built and used before the Project, but the claimants could not show its point of diversion stayed in Oregon after the 1888 cut to Lower Klamath Lake, and an Oregon adjudication has no jurisdiction over a diversion in California. Its water is now served under the Project's 1905 right, not its own earlier date.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: counsel (Nathan \/ Max Bricker) to confirm whether Claims 297, 321-12 and 321-13 are under exception in Klamath County Circuit Court before this stanza is published, so the page does not read as commentary on a ruling still under review. -->\n    <i class=\"kid-wr__fleuron\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme\"><span>Then contracts came, and one by one<\/span><span>they bound the gate and fee;<\/span><span>each leans upon a right it did not make,<\/span><span>and none can unmake the right.<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\">The first Project contract, with the Klamath Water Users Association, was signed on November 6, 1905. The District assumed that contract in 1918, and its amendments led to the District's contract of November 29, 1954, amended in 1962, which keeps the earlier contracts in force. Every one was signed before the adjudication, and the State held that the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a> conveyed no additional rights, and that a contractual system for dividing water has no bearing on priority.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s33\">[33]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s34\">[34]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <i class=\"kid-wr__fleuron\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme\"><span>Not all who hold contracts hold rights.<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\"><!-- EDIT ME: per the District, the adjudication's place-of-use maps include some rental-contract lands. If so, some land now served under a rental agreement also carries the Project right, and this example should say \"can\" (as it does), not \"does.\" Confirm before publishing. -->A water rental agreement can deliver water to land that holds no water right, and the District's contract ranks it below every other delivery. Most confusion about water in this Basin comes from mixing the two up.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <i class=\"kid-wr__fleuron\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme kid-wr__rhyme--close\"><span>When dry years come and ditches wane,<\/span><span>the Basin learns at last<\/span><span>that right and promise both must wait<\/span><span>while those sworn to keep the law hold the gate,<\/span><span>and bend it to a doom decided before the council sat.<\/span><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to confirm the closing lines. They state the District's position that the harm lies not in the ESA itself but in its weaponization: Reclamation not following the statutes, and negotiations that settle an outcome before an action is proposed, undermining its legal and contractual responsibilities. \"Doom\" is used in its old sense of a judgment; \"the council\" is the consultation. These are factual allegations about an agency; confirm the record supports them before publishing. -->\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\">This page keeps the two apart, then shows what the District serves.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"kid-wr__stats\">\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__stat\"><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-n\">73,651<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-l\">acres the District serves directly<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__stat\"><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-n\">60,964<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-l\">more acres the District can serve through the \u201cA\u201d Canal, by delivering to the Lost River and Tulelake: K.I.D.'s \u201cJ\u201d Lands, Tulelake, Westside and the Tule Lake refuge lease lands<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__stat\"><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-n\">154,955.9<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-l\">acres in the Project claim's place of use, as mapped in the adjudication<\/span><\/div>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: counsel (Max Bricker \/ Nathan). The District's position is that the 2013 Klamath Project Lands Maps behind this 154,955.9-acre place of use exclude lands K.I.D. has served since the Project began and some KBID contract lands, and include rental-contract lands. The ACFFOD states the maps were stipulated among OWRD and the KPWU members, including K.I.D. Confirm whether the District may say publicly that the maps are in error, and whether the correction belongs in exceptions before the circuit court. Until then the page only attributes the figure to the adjudication's maps. -->\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__stat\"><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-n\">3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-l\">adjudicated on-farm duty, summer season<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__stat\"><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-n\">540,778 AF<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__stat-l\">Klamath Project adjudicated summer duty<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n<!-- ============ 1 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-two\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-two\">Two processes, two questions<\/h2>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li><b>Water right.<\/b> A property right to use water, established under Oregon law and recorded by the State. In this Basin, water rights were determined in the Klamath Basin Adjudication and are set out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/owrd\/programs\/waterrights\/adjudications\/klamathriverbasinadj\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACFFOD<\/a>.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Contract.<\/b> An agreement between the United States and a district, a company or a landowner. A contract can promise to carry and deliver water, set the terms of that delivery and rank contracts against one another. It cannot create a water right, and it cannot change one.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <dl class=\"kid-wr__terms\">\n      <div><dt>ACFFOD<\/dt><dd>The Amended and Corrected Findings of Fact and Order of Determination: the State of Oregon's order, dated February 28, 2014, deciding the claims in the Klamath Basin Adjudication. The Project claims are in its Corrected Partial Order of Determination for OAH Case 003. It governs the division of water while the Klamath County Circuit Court reviews it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/owrd\/programs\/waterrights\/adjudications\/klamathriverbasinadj\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon Water Resources Department<\/a>.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s28\">[28]<\/a><\/sup><\/dd><\/div>\n      <div><dt>The District's contracts<\/dt><dd>The controlling contract is No. 14-06-200-3784, signed November 29, 1954: the transferred-works contract under which the District has operated the Project's canals, drains and pumps since January 1, 1955, amended in 1962 for Klamath Basin Improvement District. Under its Article 2 it supplements, and keeps in force where not in conflict, the District's earlier contracts: Contract Ilr-173 of July 6, 1918, among the United States, the District and the Klamath Water Users Association, under which the District assumed the construction and operation and maintenance charges and the Association was released from its 1905 contract, together with that contract's amendments of 1920, 1922, 1927, 1928, 1938 and 1950. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10uQwIMcEELv7oGdU4P1EPIMinasvoSXy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1918 contract (PDF)<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the contract (PDF)<\/a>.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/dd><\/div>\n      <div><dt><a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a><\/dt><dd>Contracts made under the Act of February 21, 1911 for delivery of Project water surplus to the needs of the Project lands, listed on Exhibit \u201cA\u201d of the District's contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1vrux4cBaDPdbP7be4q6CTsOsiWNKEcKf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contract archive<\/a>.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s16\">[16]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/dd><\/div>\n      <div><dt>Tulelake's contract<\/dt><dd>Contract No. 14-06-200-5954, signed September 10, 1956 between the United States and Tulelake Irrigation District. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MhFboiHG6taTPkd5TAe87ULZm-tlbtlY\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the contract (PDF)<\/a>.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/dd><\/div>\n      <div><dt>AF<\/dt><dd>Acre-foot: the volume of water that covers one acre to a depth of one foot, about 325,851 gallons.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div><dt>AF\/ac<\/dt><dd>Acre-feet per acre: the depth of water applied to each acre in a season. The adjudicated summer duty of 3.5 AF\/ac is enough to cover an acre three and a half feet deep over the season.<\/dd><\/div>\n    <\/dl>\n\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__wrap\">\n      <table class=\"kid-wr__cmp\">\n        <thead><tr><th><\/th><th>Water right<\/th><th>Contract<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Who decides<\/th><td>The State of Oregon, through the Klamath Basin Adjudication<\/td><td>The United States and the district, company or landowner that signed it<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">What it settles<\/th><td>Priority date, rate of diversion, duty per acre, season of use and place of use<\/td><td>Carriage and delivery through Project works, operation and maintenance, payment, and contract seniority when supply runs short<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Who holds it<\/th><td>The beneficial users of the water. The United States holds the right to <em>store<\/em> water in Upper Klamath Lake (KA 294)<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup><\/td><td>The parties to the contract<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Where it is written<\/th><td>The Corrected Partial Order of Determination (ACFFOD), OAH Case 003<\/td><td>The District's 1954 contract, the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a>, Tulelake's 1956 contract, and others<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">How it changes<\/th><td>Only through the State, under Oregon water law<\/td><td>Only by amendment signed by the parties. Not reset each spring<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">What it cannot do<\/th><td>Decide who operates the canal or who pays for it<\/td><td>Create a water right or change a priority date<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__pull\">\n      <p><strong>Contracts govern delivery. The adjudication governs the right.<\/strong> Keeping the two apart is most of what it takes to follow water in this Basin.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-first\">Rights come first<\/h3>\n    <p>Federal and state law put the water right ahead of the contract. Section 8 of the Reclamation Act directs the Secretary of the Interior to proceed in conformity with state water law, and makes beneficial use the basis, the measure and the limit of the right.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s24\">[24]<\/a><\/sup> The Supreme Court has held that Section 8 requires the United States to follow state law in the control, appropriation, use and distribution of Reclamation water, except where Congress has clearly directed otherwise.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup> It has treated Project water rights as belonging to the landowners who put the water to beneficial use, with the United States as carrier and distributor.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s26\">[26]<\/a><\/sup> In this Basin the order goes further: under Oregon law the beneficial users hold a legal interest in the Project right for the purpose of beneficial use, and the order distinguished <em>Nevada v. United States<\/em>, which had found only an equitable interest.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s27\">[27]<\/a><\/sup> In Oregon, water may be used only under a water right, and in this Basin the rights are those determined in the ACFFOD, which governs the division of water while the court reviews it.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s28\">[28]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__pull\">\n      <p><strong>A contract cannot deliver more than a water right allows, and it cannot deliver water that no right authorizes.<\/strong> Its other terms \u2014 payment, operation and maintenance, carriage \u2014 bind the parties regardless of how much water a year provides.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\" style=\"margin-top:12px\">Reclamation Act of 1902, \u00a7 8, 43 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 372 and 383; <em>California v. United States<\/em>, 438 U.S. 645 (1978); <em>Ickes v. Fox<\/em>, 300 U.S. 82 (1937); <em>Nevada v. United States<\/em>, 463 U.S. 110 (1983); ORS 537.120, 537.130(2) and 539.170; <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contract No. 14-06-200-3784<\/a>, Article 6 (operation and maintenance), Article 13(b) (carriage and delivery), Article 16 (charges) and Article 26 (payments not reduced because of shortage).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to confirm (1) the one-line characterisations of California v. United States, Ickes v. Fox and Nevada v. United States, and (2) the wording \"cannot deliver water that no right authorizes.\" The page deliberately does not say a contract without a right is void; the delivery term is unenforceable while the rest of the contract binds. -->\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ 2 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-state\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-state\">What the State of Oregon determined<\/h2>\n    <p>The Klamath Basin Adjudication settled the water rights in this Basin. Its Corrected Partial Order of Determination for OAH Case 003 disposed of the Klamath Project claims, and three findings do most of the work.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>Reclamation stores; the users hold the right to use.<\/strong> The United States' claim, filed on its notice of May 19, 1905, is KA 294 (Claim 294): a right to store water in Upper Klamath Lake. The order recognizes it as held by the United States.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup> But the order also holds that the right of beneficial use of Project water, live flow and stored water alike, is held by the beneficial users.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> That is why the District never describes Reclamation as handing out water. The right to use it was determined by the State and belongs to the lands and the people who use it.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>A contract is not a right.<\/strong> Claimants in the adjudication argued that their <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a> carried water rights of their own. The State denied those portions of the claims and held that the Warren Act contracts did not convey any additional rights. The lands were not left out: where they fell within the Project claim, they were placed inside it, on the Project's own May 19, 1905 priority. The order states that a contractual system for dividing water among users has no bearing on the priority date. Priority is set by state law.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003, Effect of BOR Contracts, para. 21.<\/p>\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-before\">Water rights came before the Project<\/h3>\n    <p>Irrigation in this Basin did not begin with the federal claim. Before the United States filed its notice on May 19, 1905, private ditch companies had already appropriated water and built works:<\/p>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li>The Van Brimmer brothers, predecessors of the <b>Van Brimmer Ditch Company<\/b>, posted notice on the shore of Lower Klamath Lake on September 4, 1883 and built a ditch to their lands in Oregon.<\/li>\n      <li>A ditch begun in 1878 passed to <b>the Linkville Water Ditch Company<\/b>, which initiated a larger appropriation on March 21, 1884. William Steele enlarged it that year, extending it fifteen and a half miles into the Klamath valley. It passed through the Big Klamath Ditch Company and Steele's family, and by 1900 Mr. Ankeny, Mr. Cantrall and Mrs. Henley owned it: the <b>Ankeny-Henley<\/b>, or Steele-Ankeny, Canal, carrying about 50 cfs. In July 1906 the Klamath Falls Irrigation Company sold the canal and its water rights to the United States. The District's 1918 contract set the Henley-Ankeny tracts apart as lands understood to have a pre-existing water right under contracts, outside the Project's public notices, whose owners pay no part of the cost of the Project works (Article 1(e)).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s34\">[34]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>The Klamath Irrigation and Improvement Company<\/b> (1903) and <b>the Klamath Canal Company<\/b> (1904) filed appropriations of their own; the United States acquired the Klamath Canal Company's rights in 1906.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>Most of those works and rights passed to the United States and were built into the Project. The adjudication recognized two as rights of their own, senior to the Project: Van Brimmer's, with a September 4, 1883 priority (KA-1001), and the Ankeny-Henley right, with a March 21, 1884 priority (KA-1004), held by the District. A third pre-Project canal, the Adams Canal, was not recognized; the box below explains why.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003: findings on pre-Project appropriations, pp. 15\u201316 (Findings 17\u201318); Adams Canal, Claims 297, 321-12 and 321-13, pp. 83\u201384; Klamath Canal Company, Claims 299, 321-14, 322-1 and 323-1, p. 84 ff.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__adams\">\n      <p class=\"kid-wr__adams-t\">The Adams Canal: a pre-Project canal the State did not recognize<\/p>\n      <dl>\n        <div><dt>1885<\/dt><dd>The Little Klamath Water Ditch Company initiates its appropriation.<\/dd><\/div>\n        <div><dt>Heading<\/dt><dd>The Adams Canal heads on White Lake, in Oregon.<\/dd><\/div>\n        <div><dt>1888<\/dt><dd>White Lake dries. A cut is made to reach water in Lower Klamath Lake, in California.<\/dd><\/div>\n        <div><dt>Ruling<\/dt><dd>The order denies the Adams claims: Claim 297, filed by the United States, and Claims 321-12 and 321-13, filed by the Klamath Project Water Users.<\/dd><\/div>\n        <div><dt>Why<\/dt><dd>The canal existed. The problem was that the claimants could not show its point of diversion stayed in Oregon after the cut, and an Oregon adjudication has no jurisdiction over a diversion in California.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <\/dl>\n      <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003, Findings 17\u201318, pp. 15\u201316; Claims 297, 321-12 and 321-13, pp. 83\u201384.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p style=\"margin-top:22px\"><strong>Three claims matter to the District's own operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__cards\">\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__card kid-wr__card--gold\">\n        <span class=\"kid-wr__tag\">KA-1001 \u00b7 Claim 321-6<\/span>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__card-t\">Van Brimmer Ditch Company<\/p>\n        <dl><dt>Priority<\/dt><dd>September 4, 1883<\/dd><dt>Rate<\/dt><dd>50.0 cfs<\/dd><dt>Duty<\/dt><dd>3.5 AF\/ac on 4,695.1 acres<\/dd><dt>Season<\/dt><dd>April 15 \u2013 October 15<\/dd><\/dl>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__card kid-wr__card--gold\">\n        <span class=\"kid-wr__tag\">KA-1004 \u00b7 Claim 321-9<\/span>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__card-t\">Ankeny-Henley Canal<\/p>\n        <dl><dt>Held by<\/dt><dd>Klamath Irrigation District<\/dd><dt>Priority<\/dt><dd>March 21, 1884<\/dd><dt>Rate<\/dt><dd>49.0 cfs<\/dd><dt>Duty<\/dt><dd>3.5 AF\/ac on 1,799 acres within a place of use of 2,036.5 acres<\/dd><dt>Season<\/dt><dd>March 1 \u2013 October 31<\/dd><\/dl>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__card\">\n        <span class=\"kid-wr__tag\">KA-1000 \u00b7 Consolidated claim<\/span>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__card-t\">The Klamath Project<\/p>\n        <dl><dt>Claimants<\/dt><dd>Approved in the names of the Bureau of Reclamation and the water users \u2014 the District and 20 other Project water users with the Bureau \u2014 one claim, for irrigation of 154,955.9 acres<\/dd><dt>Priority<\/dt><dd>May 19, 1905<\/dd><dt>Duty<\/dt><dd>3.5 AF\/ac summer; 2.5 AF\/ac winter on K.D.D. and A.D.I.C. lands<\/dd><dt>Season<\/dt><dd>March 1 \u2013 October 31; February 15 \u2013 November 15 at Station 48 and the No. 1 Drain<\/dd><\/dl>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003, claim descriptions for KA-1000, KA-1001 and KA-1004.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin-top:18px\"><strong>What the District may divert.<\/strong> The order does not stop at a duty. Table A of the Project claim sets a maximum rate at each measurement station, and those are the caps on the District's own diversions.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__wrap\">\n      <table class=\"kid-wr__cmp\" style=\"min-width:420px\">\n        <thead><tr><th>Measurement point<\/th><th>Maximum rate<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Upper Klamath Lake at the \u201cA\u201d Canal<\/th><td>1,150 cfs<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Klamath River at Station 48<\/th><td>650 cfs<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Klamath River at the Miller Hill Pumping Plant<\/th><td>105 cfs<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Klamath River at the No. 1 Drain<\/th><td>100 cfs<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Klamath River at K.I.D. Pumping Plants 1 through 10, together<\/th><td>10 cfs<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-storage\">The storage right, and what it is held for<\/h3>\n    <p>Upper Klamath Lake storage is a water right of its own. Claim KA 294 is approved in the name of the Bureau of Reclamation to store up to 486,828 acre-feet a year in Upper Klamath Lake and Agency Lake, between elevations 4143.3 and 4136.0, from January 1 through December 31, at Link River Dam, with a priority of May 19, 1905. Its stated purpose is <em>storage of water for appropriation for domestic use and irrigation<\/em> under the Project claim, KA 1000, and under the two refuge claims.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p>The order explains why the United States holds it: the United States filed the 1905 notice, built and operates the storage works, and holds the right to use the lake for storage. It denied the water users' competing storage claim. But it also held that the storage right is held <em>for the benefit of the irrigation rights<\/em> the order recognizes, that the beneficial users hold a legal interest in the right to use both live flow and stored water, and that the United States' other interest is in re-using return flows within the Project. The order does not alter the relative rights of the United States and the irrigation districts to control or operate the works.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p>Federal law and the District's contract fill in the rest. Section 6 of the Reclamation Act keeps title to and operation of reservoirs, and the works needed to protect and operate them, in the United States until Congress provides otherwise.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s30\">[30]<\/a><\/sup> The 1954 contract follows that line: Link River Dam is a reserved work the United States operates (Articles 1(d) and 12), and the District pays its share of the cost of operating the reserved works (Article 16(a)(iii)). The contract names no quantity of stored water, but under Article 26 the United States <em>will use all reasonable means to guard against<\/em> a shortage in Project reservoirs.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> In the District's reading, that is a duty to act, with two consequences: it means exercising the KA 294 storage right toward the irrigation rights it is held for, and it means that when Reclamation consults under the Endangered Species Act it should propose an action that makes full contract deliveries and let the consultation test that action, rather than propose reduced deliveries at the outset. Tulelake's 1956 contract is more explicit on supply: it gives Tulelake the right in perpetuity to receive from the Klamath Project all water needed for beneficial irrigation use within that district, delivered from works under the control of the United States, subject only to facility capacity and reasonable beneficial use; and it makes Tulelake pay a share of any added cost of operating Link River Dam or Upper Klamath Lake if the 1917 contract with the California-Oregon Power Company ends or changes, along with set shares of Clear Lake and Gerber reservoir costs.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003: storage and use held separately, p. 44; ownership interests of the beneficial users and the United States, pp. 57\u201369; summary of approved claims and control of works, p. 75; Claim No. 294 description (KBA_ACFFOD_07116). Reclamation Act of 1902, \u00a7 6, 43 U.S.C. \u00a7 498. <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contract No. 14-06-200-3784<\/a>, Articles 1(d)(v), 12, 16(a)(iii) and 26.<\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to confirm the storage paragraphs, including the Article 26 reading moved here from the Warren Act page (duty to store; ESA proposed action at full contract deliveries), in particular the statement that the 1954 contract names no quantity of stored water and contains no express duty to store beyond Article 26. Earlier contracts (the 1905 KWUA contract and the District's 1918 contract as amended) are not cited here and may say more. -->\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-622\">Claim 622 and the same lake<\/h3>\n    <p>A second determined right applies to the same water body. Claim 622 is approved in the name of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as trustee for the Klamath Tribes, based on the hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering purposes of the Klamath Treaty of 1864; the Tribes' own Claim 616 was denied as duplicative. Its purpose is minimum lake levels in Upper Klamath Lake to establish and maintain habitat for those treaty rights, its place of use is Upper Klamath Lake and Agency Lake \u2014 the same place of use as KA 294 \u2014 and its priority is time immemorial.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s31\">[31]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: COUNSEL REVIEW REQUIRED BEFORE PUBLISHING (Max Bricker and Nathan). This figure now publishes (1) storage volumes locked below the Claim 622 floor, (2) a mismatch between the ACFFOD's 486,828 AF and Reclamation's 2026 curve with Agency Lake and the Barnes units reconnected, and (3) model results showing the reconstructed natural lake does not reach several Claim 622 minimums. Claim 622 is in remand proceedings, and OWRD's scope order addresses evidence about physical alterations to the lake since 2011, including the Barnes-Agency reconnection. Publishing these results could affect KPWU's hearing strategy. Also unresolved: whether the ACFFOD elevations are on the USBR Klamath Basin datum used by the model and the 2026 curve; if not, every comparison on this figure shifts. The primary source for 4,144.98 ft is still needed. Links for sources 36 and 37 are needed. -->\n    <figure class=\"kid-wr__ukl\">\n      <p class=\"kid-wr__ukl-t\">One lake, two rights, and the water that arrives<\/p>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__ukl-wrap\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 900 500\" role=\"img\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-ukl-t kid-wr-ukl-d\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><title id=\"kid-wr-ukl-t\">Upper Klamath Lake: KA 294 storage, Claim 622 minimum levels, and the reconstructed natural lake<\/title><desc id=\"kid-wr-ukl-d\">Elevation chart from 4,136.0 to 4,145 feet. The KA 294 storage band runs from 4,136.0 to 4,143.3. The Claim 622 minimum steps from 4,143.0 in spring to 4,139.5 in late summer. 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272.4\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#2f8fb0\" stroke-width=\"2\" opacity=\"0.9\"\/><path d=\"M255.2 180.7 L394.7 180.7 L394.7 218.6 L422.2 218.6 L422.2 237.6 L449.8 237.6 L449.8 275.5 L506.7 275.5 L506.7 313.4 L618.7 313.4 L618.7 275.5 L703.1 275.5 L703.1 256.5 L760.0 256.5\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#9a7a2f\" stroke-width=\"3.5\"\/><path d=\"M90.0 256.5 L255.2 180.7\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#9a7a2f\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-dasharray=\"5 5\"\/><text x=\"543.8\" y=\"329.4\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\" font-size=\"11\" font-weight=\"600\" fill=\"#6d5520\">4139.5<\/text><text x=\"442.4\" y=\"199.7\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\" font-size=\"11\" fill=\"#2f8fb0\">wet-year peak 4,142.68<\/text><line x1=\"90\" y1=\"20\" x2=\"120\" y2=\"20\" stroke=\"#9a7a2f\" stroke-width=\"3.5\"\/><text x=\"128\" y=\"24\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, Arial, sans-serif\" font-size=\"13\" fill=\"#22262e\">Claim 622 minimum lake level<\/text><rect x=\"350\" y=\"12\" width=\"30\" height=\"14\" fill=\"#d6e4ef\"\/><text x=\"388\" y=\"24\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, Arial, sans-serif\" font-size=\"13\" fill=\"#22262e\">KA 294 storage range<\/text><text x=\"90\" y=\"50\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, Arial, sans-serif\" font-size=\"12\" font-weight=\"600\" fill=\"#22262e\">Lake with no dam and no Project, modern inflow:<\/text><line x1=\"90\" y1=\"66\" x2=\"120\" y2=\"66\" stroke=\"#2f8fb0\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/><text x=\"128\" y=\"70\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, Arial, sans-serif\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#22262e\">wet (1999)<\/text><line x1=\"220\" y1=\"66\" x2=\"250\" y2=\"66\" stroke=\"#2f8fb0\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-dasharray=\"7 4\"\/><text x=\"258\" y=\"70\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, Arial, sans-serif\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#22262e\">median (2016)<\/text><line x1=\"380\" y1=\"66\" x2=\"410\" y2=\"66\" stroke=\"#4a5165\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-dasharray=\"2 3\"\/><text x=\"418\" y=\"70\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, Arial, sans-serif\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#22262e\">dry (1992)<\/text><text x=\"24\" y=\"266.0\" transform=\"rotate(-90 24 266.0)\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\" font-size=\"11\" fill=\"#5a6473\">Upper Klamath Lake elevation, feet (USBR datum)<\/text><\/svg><\/div>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__ukl-notes\">\n        <div><p class=\"kid-wr__ukl-h\">1 \u00b7 The storage is dedicated<\/p><p>KA 294 stores water between 4,136.0 and 4,143.3 feet for one stated purpose: appropriation for domestic use and irrigation under the Project claim, KA 1000, and the two refuge irrigation claims. The order put that range at 486,828 acre-feet a year.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n        <div><p class=\"kid-wr__ukl-h\">2 \u00b7 The order sets two rights against each other<\/p><p>KA 294 is recognized down to 4,136.0. Claim 622 would hold the same lake no lower than 4,139.5 to 4,143.0 feet, month by month. Every acre-foot below the Claim 622 floor is storage KA 294 recognizes but could not use while Claim 622 governs. On Reclamation's 2026 stage-storage curve, the 4,136.0\u20134,143.3 range holds about 645,600 acre-feet; the Claim 622 floor would leave about 31,300 acre-feet above it from April 1 to June 15, and about 377,400 acre-feet above it from August 16 to October 15.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s36\">[36]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n        <div class=\"kid-wr__wrap\"><table class=\"kid-wr__cmp\" style=\"min-width:520px\"><thead><tr><th>Claim 622 period<\/th><th>Floor, ft<\/th><th>KA 294 storage below the floor<\/th><th>Above the floor<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Apr 1 \u2013 Jun 15<\/th><td>4,143.0<\/td><td>614,345 AF (95%)<\/td><td>31,288 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Jun 16 \u2013 Jun 30<\/th><td>4,142.0<\/td><td>510,949 AF (79%)<\/td><td>134,684 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Jul 1 \u2013 Jul 15<\/th><td>4,141.5<\/td><td>459,928 AF (71%)<\/td><td>185,705 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Jul 16 \u2013 Aug 15<\/th><td>4,140.5<\/td><td>360,513 AF (56%)<\/td><td>285,120 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Aug 16 \u2013 Oct 15<\/th><td>4,139.5<\/td><td>268,218 AF (42%)<\/td><td>377,415 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Oct 16 \u2013 Nov 30<\/th><td>4,140.5<\/td><td>360,513 AF (56%)<\/td><td>285,120 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">Dec 1 \u2013 Dec 31<\/th><td>4,141.0<\/td><td>409,581 AF (63%)<\/td><td>236,052 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n        <p>The volumes do not match the order either. The order put the 4,136.0\u20134,143.3 range at 486,828 acre-feet on 1996 bathymetry; Reclamation's 2026 curve, with Agency Lake and the Barnes units reconnected, puts the same range at about 645,600.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s36\">[36]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n        <div><p class=\"kid-wr__ukl-h\">3 \u00b7 The water that arrives today does not reach the Claim 622 spring level<\/p><p>The District's reconstruction runs Upper Klamath Lake with no dam, no canals and the Link River reef uncut, driven by Reclamation's modern net inflow. In none of the three years modelled does the natural lake reach Claim 622's April 1 \u2013 June 15 minimum of 4,143.0 feet: it peaks at 4,140.65 in the dry year, 4,141.53 in the median year and 4,142.68 in the wet year. The natural lake also stays below the October 16 \u2013 December 31 minimums in all three years. It meets the late-summer minimum of 4,139.5 on most days.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s37\">[37]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n        <p>Modern inflow already carries a century of upstream depletion that is not the Project \u2014 Fourmile Creek diverted to the Rogue, upper-basin irrigation, and denser forest \u2014 so the reconstruction understates the natural lake. It is three years, not a period of record.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s37\">[37]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Sources: KA 294 and Finding 52, Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003; Claim 622 order; Reclamation 2026 Upper Klamath Lake stage-storage curve with Agency Lake; District natural-conditions reconstruction, water years 1992, 2016 and 1999. April 1904 high-water marks at 4,144.98 feet, USBR Klamath Basin datum: District reconstruction.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s31\">[31]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s36\">[36]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s37\">[37]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <details class=\"kid-wr__ukl-data\"><summary>Show the Claim 622 levels as a table<\/summary>\n<div class=\"kid-wr__wrap\">\n      <table class=\"kid-wr__cmp\" style=\"min-width:420px\">\n        <thead><tr><th>Period (Claim 622)<\/th><th>Minimum lake level, feet<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">January 1 \u2013 March 31<\/th><td>Consistent with flood control, raise to 4143.0 by March 31<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">April 1 \u2013 June 15<\/th><td>4143.0<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">June 16 \u2013 June 30<\/th><td>4142.0<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">July 1 \u2013 July 15<\/th><td>4141.5<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">July 16 \u2013 August 15<\/th><td>4140.5<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">August 16 \u2013 October 15<\/th><td>4139.5<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">October 16 \u2013 November 30<\/th><td>4140.5<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><th scope=\"row\">December 1 \u2013 December 31<\/th><td>4141.0<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n    <\/figure>\n    <p>Those minimums sit inside the 4143.3 to 4136.0 band in which KA 294 stores and releases water, so the two rights describe the same lake from opposite directions. Priority alone does not settle the relationship. The order incorporates a stipulation among the Tribes, the United States and the Klamath Project Water Users under which the exercise of Claim 622 shall not result in regulation curtailing water rights with a priority date before August 9, 1908 \u2014 which includes the 1883, 1884 and 1905 rights on this page. Outside that limit, any regulation follows ORS 540.045(1)(a), curtailing the latest priority first. Claim 622 is under review in Klamath County Circuit Court and was remanded in 2023 for further hearing.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s31\">[31]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Z6YcShbD-NZOGm5rMNi2gnzEEB2lS8vy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, Claim 622 (Upper Klamath Lake)<\/a>, February 28, 2014, \u00a7\u00a7 A.10 and B.2\u20133 (KBA_ACFFOD_04938\u201304946).<\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: counsel review required before publishing (Max Bricker and Nathan). Claim 622 is in active remand proceedings. The section is written to state only what the order says; confirm (1) the current status of the stipulation's August 9, 1908 no-call limits given the Restoration Agreement's termination, (2) the remand description, and (3) whether this section belongs on a public governance page at all. -->\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ 3 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-contracts\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-contracts\">What the contracts determine<\/h2>\n    <p>The District was organized in December 1917 and, by contract of July 6, 1918, took over the payments the Klamath Water Users Association had guaranteed under its 1905 contract, and the 1918 contract released the Association from that contract and provided for its dissolution (Contract Ilr-173, Articles 2 and 3). On November 29, 1954 it signed Contract No. 14-06-200-3784, which controls today. That contract supplements the 1918 contract and its amendments and keeps them in force where they do not conflict (Article 2); it was amended in 1962 for Klamath Basin Improvement District. On January 1, 1955 the District took over the care, operation and maintenance of the Project's canals, drains and pumps. The United States kept title.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s33\">[33]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s34\">[34]<\/a><\/sup><sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> The District also took on the United States' delivery obligations to others. Those obligations sit in separate articles, and each article describes a different kind of water user.<\/p>\n\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li><b>Article 13(a):<\/b> the District's own lands, including the two senior pre-Project rights, Van Brimmer (1883) and Ankeny-Henley (1884). Neither is a Warren Act contract.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Article 13(b):<\/b> the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contractors<\/a> listed on Exhibit \u201cA\u201d, and Van Brimmer for water above its settled 50 cfs only.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Article 13(c):<\/b> later carriage contracts, such as Klamath Basin Improvement District's in 1962.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Article 14:<\/b> the Tule Lake lands, served through the \u201cJ\u201d and \u201cD\u201d Canals. Tulelake's 1956 contract did not amend it.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Article 19:<\/b> rental water, expressly subordinate to every other delivery.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <a class=\"kid-wr__linkrow\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\"><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-l\">The Warren Act of 1911 \u2192<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-m\">Exhibit \u201cA\u201d, what each Warren Act contract promises, and Klamath Basin Improvement District's 1962 contracts<\/span><\/a>\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\">What the District's contract does not say<\/h3>\n    <p>The 1954 contract states <strong>no quantity<\/strong> of water. Neither does Tulelake's 1956 contract, which provides all the water needed for beneficial use.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> The District's contract also contains <strong>no clause for dividing a short water supply<\/strong>; the only divisions it provides for are divisions of cost. Under Article 13(a) the District takes the Project supply at the headworks and distributes it to the water users entitled to it. The contract neither grants nor limits the District's authority over that distribution; the authority comes from Oregon law. Distribution from the District's works is under the District's exclusive control, and the Board must establish equitable rules for the distribution and use of water among the landowners. When the subordinate contracts under Articles 13(b) and 13(c) receive no water, the supply that remains is shared only among the Article 13(a) and Article 14 lands, and how it is divided among them is a matter for the Board's rules, subject to the senior 1883 and 1884 rights and the 3.5 acre-foot limit. What the contract does not do is give Reclamation authority to assign the District a per-acre or volumetric share.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to confirm the sentence on dividing the remaining supply once 13(b) and 13(c) deliveries are zero. Authority under ORS 545.221(1)(c) does not depend on that condition; the condition goes to whether a Board volume rule is equitable and consistent with priority. Also confirm the wording does not read as the District accepting a Reclamation supply figure as an entitlement (July 1, 2026 letter posture). -->\n    <p>The contract also looks ahead to the water rights themselves. Under Article 35(b), once the United States has relinquished title to the transferred works and the District's payment obligations end, the District acquires from the United States all water rights then held by the United States pertaining to lands within the District, so far as Oregon law and any Oregon\u2013California compact allow.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p>Read against the adjudication, three limits follow from the documents themselves. First, the trigger is title to the <em>transferred<\/em> works; Link River Dam and the other reserved works are not part of it, and Section 6 of the Reclamation Act keeps reservoirs federal until Congress provides otherwise. Second, the rights the United States holds are those the order identified \u2014 its interest in the Project claim and its re-use interest, and the KA 294 storage right \u2014 and the storage right is held for the Project's irrigation rights inside and outside the District, not for District lands alone. Third, the proviso makes any transfer subject to Oregon law and to the Klamath River Basin Compact.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s30\">[30]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s32\">[32]<\/a><\/sup> Tulelake's 1956 contract carries a parallel clause at its own Article 35(b) with one telling difference: Tulelake acquires only the rights pertaining to <em>privately owned<\/em> lands within its boundaries, and its Article 39 keeps title to all Project works in the United States until Congress provides otherwise. The District's 1954 clause contains no \u201cprivately owned\u201d limit.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: (1) supply the number and date of the 1962 amendment to the 1954 contract for Klamath Basin Improvement District so it can be cited directly. (2) The 1918 contract (Ilr-173) does not mention the Association's bylaws; if the page should say the District inherited the bylaws, supply the source. (3) The 1918 contract uses \"Henley-Ankeny\"; the ACFFOD uses \"Ankeny-Henley.\" The page keeps each document's own spelling where it quotes that document. -->\n    <!-- EDIT ME: counsel review of the Article 35(b) paragraphs before publishing. The second paragraph applies 35(b) to the storage right; it does not say whether 35(b) could reach a share of KA 294, which is a question for counsel. Text read from Contract 14-06-200-3784, Article 35(a)-(b). It ties this page to the title-transfer position; cut it if Nathan prefers to keep that argument on the Title Transfer pages. -->\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\">What the Warren Act contracts say<\/h3>\n    <p>Each Warren Act contract carries a reservation in favour of the Project lands: the contractor's rights to delivery are subject to the prior rights of the lands and entrymen already under the Project. That is contract subordination, not a junior water right; those lands hold the same 1905 priority as the rest of the Project. The <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act page<\/a> quotes each contract's delivery clause and reservation.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s9\">[9]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s10\">[10]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s13\">[13]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s16\">[16]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-13f\">What Article 13(f) reaches, and what it does not<\/h3>\n    <p>Article 13(f) is the only provision in the District's contract that directs it to stop delivering on the Secretary's word. Its reach is fixed by its own terms: the District will make no deliveries <em>under contracts mentioned in this article<\/em> when the Secretary gives notice that <em>the contracting parties<\/em> are not entitled to irrigation water, for non-payment or other reasons.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li><b>It reaches the contracts Article 13 names:<\/b> the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a> listed on Exhibit \u201cA\u201d under Article 13(b), and later carriage contracts attached under Article 13(c), such as Klamath Basin Improvement District's.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>It does not reach Article 13(a) lands.<\/b> Article 13(a) names no contract. It directs the District to take the water supply for the lands within the District and distribute it to the water users entitled to it. Those users hold their right under KA 1000; they are not contracting parties under an Article 13 contract.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>It does not reach the Van Brimmer settlement.<\/b> The 1909 agreement settled the riparian claims the Company gave up, and it is not listed on Exhibit \u201cA.\u201d The settled 50 cfs is adjudicated as the Company's own right, KA-1001. Only the water above 50 cfs, under the 1943 contract I8r-1065, appears on Exhibit \u201cA\u201d \u2014 recorded as \u201cExcess Only\u201d \u2014 and only that excess falls within Article 13(f).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s4\">[4]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> The obligation to deliver passed to the District by contract. Paragraph 22 of the 1943 contract provides that <em>in the event an organization of the Klamath Project water users takes over the operation and maintenance and control of that part of the Klamath Project from which deliveries of water are made to the Company, the United States will be relieved of all responsibility for performance<\/em> under the 1943 contract and the 1909 contract. The District took over those works under its 1954 contract, assumed the United States' delivery obligations under Article 13, and has delivered to Van Brimmer since January 1, 1955.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>It does not reach pre-Project water rights.<\/b> The Ankeny-Henley right (KA-1004, 1884) is held by the District under the adjudication and delivered under Article 13(a). No contract for it appears on Exhibit \u201cA.\u201d The same is true of Van Brimmer's 1883 right.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>A different article reaches the District itself. Under Article 20 the United States may refuse to deliver water to the District if the District is more than twelve months in default on payments due under the contract. That turns on the District's payments, not on a shortage, and it is not a notice under Article 13(f).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to confirm. The reading rests on \"contracts mentioned in this article\" and \"the contracting parties.\" Reclamation could argue the 1954 contract itself is \"mentioned\" in Article 13, since 13(b) and 13(e) refer to \"this contract.\" Confirm counsel is comfortable stating the limits of 13(f) this plainly on a public page. -->\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ 4 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-limits\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-limits\">The right, the contract, and the 2026 direction<\/h2>\n    <p>For any Warren Act land in 2026, three different numbers were in play, each from a different kind of document. Only the first two are set by a right or a contract.<\/p>\n    <ol class=\"kid-wr__limits\">\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">1<\/span><div><strong>The water right: 3.5 acre-feet per acre.<\/strong> Set by the adjudication for every acre inside the Project claim, Warren Act lands included, on the 1905 priority. It caps delivery under any contract that states more than 3.5 acre-feet per acre, such as Klamath Basin Improvement District's average ceiling of 3.6.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/div><\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">2<\/span><div><strong>The contract: usually less.<\/strong> Each Warren Act district signed its own contract, and most state a maximum below 3.5 \u2014 two acre-feet per acre for Enterprise, Malin, Sunnyside and Shasta View, and two and one-half for Pine Grove.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s6\">[6]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s7\">[7]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s8\">[8]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s9\">[9]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s10\">[10]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s11\">[11]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s12\">[12]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/div><\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">3<\/span><div><strong>What Reclamation directed in 2026: 0.75 acre-feet per irrigable acre.<\/strong> On April 6, 2026 Reclamation's Klamath Basin Area Office wrote that Project operations would follow the Annual Operations Plan under the 2024 biological opinions, forecast 221,000 acre-feet available from Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River, and did not expect a full irrigation supply. On April 15, 2026 it wrote that water from Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River for <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contractors<\/a> is limited to 0.75 acre-feet per irrigable acre, and that no water would be available to water rental contractors. The authorities the letters name are the Reclamation Act, federal Reclamation law, the Endangered Species Act, the biological opinions and the operations plan; neither letter cites the 1954 contract or any Warren Act contract, and the 0.75 figure appears in no contract. By letter of July 1, 2026 the District asked Reclamation to identify the contractual authority it relies on, the intended role of Article 13(f), and the written delegation of authority for any official below the Secretary of the Interior to issue such a direction. No reply has identified any of them. The District contests the direction.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s20\">[20]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s21\">[21]<\/a><\/sup><\/div><\/li>\n      <li class=\"kid-wr__rule\"><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">=<\/span><div><strong>Between the right and the contract, the lower one governs delivery.<\/strong> The 2026 figure is a direction from Reclamation, not a term of any right or contract. Priority and contract seniority set the order of delivery, as described below; neither exempts anyone from a short supply.<\/div><\/li>\n    <\/ol>\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-order\">Who sets the order of delivery<\/h3>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li><b>The water right's priority date.<\/b> The adjudication fixed it: Van Brimmer 1883, Ankeny-Henley 1884, and May 19, 1905 for the Project claim, which includes the Warren Act lands and the refuges. Between rights on a source, the watermaster regulates by priority, curtailing the latest first.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Contract seniority.<\/b> Among Project lands that share the 1905 priority, the contracts rank delivery. Reclamation Act contracts come before <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a>, which reserve the prior rights of the Project lands in their own terms and in the Warren Act itself.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s9\">[9]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s10\">[10]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s16\">[16]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>The Secretary of the Interior, for Article 13(b) and 13(c) contracts.<\/b> Only the Secretary may give notice under Article 13(f) that a contracting party is not entitled to delivery, and where a contract provides for it, apportion a short supply within that contract's own class.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>Inside the District's works, the Board's equitable rules turn that order into the delivery queue.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s19\">[19]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__notes-h\" style=\"margin-top:14px\">How the District fills orders<\/p>\n    <p>Orders are placed with a ditch rider or through the web system on twenty-four hours' notice, run a minimum twelve-hour set, and are capped at eight days so water moves through a wait list faster when demand rises. When more water is ordered than can be delivered, a wait list forms, managed by ditch-rider division. Seniority sets the order on that list; it does not exempt anyone from it.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <ol class=\"kid-wr__limits\">\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">1<\/span><div><strong>Van Brimmer Ditch Company, 1883:<\/strong> up to 50 cfs, including its river pumps. It may be wait-listed, but holds the top of the list.<\/div><\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">2<\/span><div><strong>Ankeny-Henley, 1884:<\/strong> up to 49 cfs, next in seniority.<\/div><\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">3<\/span><div><strong>Article 13(a) lands, 1905 priority<\/strong> (the District's \u201cA contract\u201d accounts): first call, first served.<\/div><\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"kid-wr__num\">4<\/span><div><strong>Article 13(b) and 13(c) contract lands<\/strong> (the \u201cB contract\u201d accounts): the same 1905 priority, subordinate by contract. A daily flow cap applies, with first call, first served beneath it and a wait list above it.<\/div><\/li>\n    <\/ol>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__notes-h\" style=\"margin-top:14px\">Who divides a short supply<\/p>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li><b>The District's 1954 contract<\/b> has no clause for dividing a short supply.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Tulelake's 1956 contract<\/b> lets the United States apportion a shortage among contracts of equal priority to Tulelake's (Article 33(c)). That binds the parties to Tulelake's contract only.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Klamath Basin Improvement District's 1962 contract<\/b> lets the United States apportion the available surplus among it and others entitled under Warren Act contracts (Article 4).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>Rental water<\/b> goes first under Article 19 of the District's contract.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n\n    <!-- EDIT ME: counsel review. Item 3 characterises Reclamation's letters and the District's July 1, 2026 request. Wording matches the published Warren Act page; confirm it stays consistent with the District's current correspondence posture. -->\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ 5 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-serves\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-serves\">What the District serves<\/h2>\n    <p>The lands below are grouped by the kind of entitlement that reaches them, and listed by priority or contract date within each group. Acreages follow one order of authority: the adjudication first, then the contracts. Van Brimmer, Ankeny-Henley and the Tule Lake refuge come from the adjudication; the Warren Act districts and individual contracts from Exhibit \u201cA\u201d of the 1954 contract; KBID from its 1962 contract; Tulelake, Westside and the Tulelake lands in the Main Division from Tulelake's 1956 contract. Contract acreages are confirmed against Reclamation's tabulation of Klamath Project contracts, which reconciles to the A Canal: its Main Division, Pumping Division and Van Brimmer acreages total 70,908.4 acres, the same as this table's direct deliveries less Poe Valley and the adjudicated Van Brimmer difference. The contract's 37,748.0-acre Main Division includes the Ankeny-Henley lands, so this table shows them separately at their adjudicated 1,799.0 acres and the Main Division at the remaining 35,949.0. Where neither the adjudication nor a contract states an acreage, Reclamation's most recent annual history (1974) fills the gap.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup> Each row names its source.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s39\">[39]<\/a><\/sup> Each contract number links to the document.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s38\">[38]<\/a><\/sup> Each volume shows what the contract provides and what the adjudication allows; where the two differ, the lower one is shown and noted.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__key\">\n      <span><i style=\"background:#e6eef7;border-left:4px solid #1b4f82\"><\/i>Adjudicated rights and Article 13(a) and 14 lands \u2014 no 0.75 direction<\/span>\n      <span><i style=\"background:#fbf0d5;border-left:4px solid #b8860b\"><\/i>Contract lands \u2014 Reclamation directed 0.75 AF\/ac in 2026 (contested)<\/span>\n      <span><i style=\"background:#e3f0e4;border-left:4px solid #2e6b46\"><\/i>Reachable through District works \u2014 Article 14 lands, Tulelake's 1956 contract and the refuge's adjudicated right; Westside, a Warren Act district, keeps its gold code<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__wrap\">\n    <table class=\"kid-wr__acres\"><colgroup><col style=\"width:31%\"><col style=\"width:13%\"><col style=\"width:36%\"><col style=\"width:20%\"><\/colgroup>\n      <thead><tr><th>District or contract<\/th><th class=\"r\">Acres served<\/th><th class=\"r\">Contract volume or right<\/th><th class=\"r\">2026 Reclamation direction<span>0.75 AF\/ac, contested<\/span><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n      <tr class=\"ga\"><td>Van Brimmer Ditch Company<span class=\"ct\">KA-1001 \u00b7 <strong>1883<\/strong> priority \u00b7 50 cfs \u00b7 Art. 13(a) \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/18JB9Z9fPIbWCsFhXlCNnC6UeV3KVBI2F\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1909 settlement<\/a> \u00b7 excess and \u00b6 22: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16-CZhjPAqaCwFIlWnwOgBtf_F91RHr04\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I8r-1065<\/a><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">4,695.1<span class=\"ct\">ACFFOD<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>16,433 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Settlement of 1909, not a Warren Act contract \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">no 0.75 direction<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"ga\"><td>Ankeny-Henley lands<span class=\"ct\">KA-1004 \u00b7 <strong>1884<\/strong> priority \u00b7 49 cfs \u00b7 held by K.I.D. \u00b7 Art. 13(a) \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10uQwIMcEELv7oGdU4P1EPIMinasvoSXy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1918 contract<\/a><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">1,799.0<span class=\"ct\">ACFFOD<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>6,297 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">No contract volume \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">no 0.75 direction<\/td><\/tr>\n      <!-- EDIT ME: acreage order of authority (per the District): ACFFOD first, contracts second; Reclamation annual histories only to fill gaps or answer questions. Reclamation's undated Klamath Project contract tabulation (source 41) is used as the contract-tier record where contract text is unavailable or amended.\n     RESOLVED BY THE TABULATION: Main Division 37,748.0 (Contract 14-06-200-3784; replaces District 37,113). The tabulation's A Canal total of 70,908.4 = Main 39,298.6 + Pumping 27,020.8 + Van Brimmer 4,589.0, Per the District, the 37,748.0 Main Division includes the 1,799.0 KA-1004 Ankeny-Henley acres; the table shows Ankeny-Henley separately (ACFFOD) and the Main Division at 35,949.0. Check: 73,650.6 direct less Poe Valley 2,636.1 less the Van Brimmer difference 106.1 = 70,908.4, the tabulation's A Canal total. Shasta View 4,067.2 (Ilr-181). KBID 10,282.4. Poe Valley 2,636.1. D Lands 1,180.0. Individual Warren Act contracts 4,662.2 (Pumping Division 27,020.8 less the named districts and KBID; Exhibit \"A\" gave 4,652.2). Added: eight individual repayment contracts within K.I.D., 1966-1973, 370.6 acres. Tulelake 41,695.3 matches the tabulation exactly.\n     KEPT FROM ACFFOD OVER THE TABULATION: Van Brimmer 4,695.1 (tabulation 4,589.0 settlement acreage); Tule Lake lease lands 16,000, the ACFFOD Claim 317 approved irrigated acreage (per the District); tabulation 17,300.4; ACFFOD place of use 17,967.3; Tulelake currently reports about 14,000 leased.\n     OPEN: Pine Grove 1,374 (District) vs 954 (contract and tabulation). Per the District: the 300.2 acres under Ilr-149, Ilr-159 and Ilr-175 are Exhibit \"A\" Warren Act contracts, separate from the 1,180.0 D Lands; the 2,078.8 J Lands are separate from the 37,748.0 Main Division. The tabulation is undated; add its date and title. The tabulation labels priority classes \"UKL-KR Priority Allocation\"; that wording is Reclamation's and is not used on this page.\n     J LANDS: 2,078.8 shown in the Article 14 block (tabulation and 1956 Tulelake contract); the 1989 K.I.D.-Tulelake contract lists 2,177.0 assessable acres. With the J Lands and the tabulation's lease-land figure (17,300.4) the block would equal Reclamation's Station 48 total exactly (62,264.5); with the ACFFOD's 16,000 it is 1,300.4 lower. D LANDS: supply Exhibit C of the 1989 contract. The 1989 contract can be cancelled on 30 days' notice; confirm it is still in force. -->\n      <tr class=\"ga\"><td>Main Division<span class=\"ct\">KA-1000 \u00b7 May 19, 1905 \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art. 13(a)<\/a><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">35,949.0<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation, Contract 14-06-200-3784: 37,748.0, less the 1,799.0 Ankeny-Henley acres shown above<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>125,822 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">1954 contract states no volume \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">no 0.75 direction<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"ga\"><td>Individual repayment contracts within K.I.D.<span class=\"ct\">eight contracts, 1966\u20131973 (14-06-200-3028A and others) \u00b7 KA-1000 \u00b7 Art. 13(a)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">370.6<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>1,297 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">No contract volume \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">no 0.75 direction<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"ga\"><td>Tulelake \u2014 portion served by K.I.D.<span class=\"ct\">KA-1000 \u00b7 May 19, 1905 \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art. 14(b)<\/a>; delivered through the \u201cD\u201d Canal; Reclamation lists the \u201cD\u201d Lands at 1,180.0 acres<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">1,180.0<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation, Contract 14-06-200-5954 (\u201cD\u201d Lands)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>4,130 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">No contract volume \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">no 0.75 direction<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"sub2\"><td>Adjudicated rights, Article 13(a) and 14 lands<span class=\"ct\">oldest right first<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">43,993.7<\/td><td class=\"basis\">153,979 AF<\/td><td class=\"na\">no 0.75 direction<\/td><\/tr>\n\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Pine Grove previously carried the note \"DRA-enrolled before full delivery\" under its 2026 limit. Its meaning is unclear on a public page; removed pending your decision. -->\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Pine Grove shown at 954 acres: 1954 Exhibit \"A\" and Reclamation's contract tabulation agree. The District has 1,374; use it once a contract (for example the 1936 supplement to Ilr-403 or a later amendment) states it. -->\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Pine Grove Irrigation District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1afRaQtPiGLbiWP86qjuAkBtkn_7pC5Qy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-403<\/a> \u00b7 Dec 21, 1918, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ATE80P163dQB0LKEfjB-OaJjTCxgPo7S\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended June 19, 1936<\/a> \u00b7 Art. 13(b)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">954.0<span class=\"ct\">1954 contract, Exh. \u201cA\u201d; Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>2,385 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract maximum 2.5 AF\/ac \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 contract governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">716 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Enterprise Irrigation District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1A8vzq657IpXeJG2neWMgwDUedkFH3xcg\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-399<\/a> \u00b7 Oct 5, 1920 \u00b7 Art. 13(b)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">2,980.8<span class=\"ct\">1954 contract, Exh. \u201cA\u201d; Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>5,962 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract 2.0 AF\/ac \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 contract governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">2,236 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Malin Irrigation District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZSEP8ZwggWSqgOGhCrOmw8_B--hNCqpQ\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-195<\/a> \u00b7 Sept 9, 1922 \u00b7 Art. 13(b)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">3,479.2<span class=\"ct\">1954 contract, Exh. \u201cA\u201d; Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>6,958 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract not to exceed 2.0 AF\/ac, 0.6 in any month \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 contract governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">2,609 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Exhibit \"A\" lists Shasta View as Ilr-1531, Aug 20, 1948; the per-acre terms shown come from the Oct 6, 1922 contract (Ilr-181). The 1948 scan has no text layer; confirm it did not change the 2.0 AF\/ac and 0.6 per month terms. -->\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Shasta View Irrigation District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dZtG5cMvtuc2hvUKn5hmXCYNQoH0wfGa\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oct 6, 1922<\/a> (Ilr-181) \u00b7 Exhibit \u201cA\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10LpTFP_3inpuSvDfzzj_HCVUEfnWsbtR\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-1531, Aug 20, 1948<\/a> \u00b7 Art. 13(b)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">4,067.2<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation, Ilr-181<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>8,134 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract not to exceed 2.0 AF\/ac, 0.6 in any month \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 contract governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">3,050 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Sunnyside Irrigation District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/188fJ4b5csk8CNKsJ2fAvB-L7ILdrhEt1\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-174<\/a> \u00b7 Oct 24, 1922 \u00b7 Art. 13(b)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">595.0<span class=\"ct\">1954 contract, Exh. \u201cA\u201d; Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>1,190 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract not to exceed 2.0 AF\/ac, 0.6 in any month \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 contract governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">446 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <!-- Individual contract acreage 4,652.2 (sum of Exhibit \"A\") is confirmed by Reclamation's 1968 report: 4,352 acres Oregon plus 300 acres California = 4,652. Contract terms still rest on a three-contract sample. -->\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Individual <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a><span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exhibit \u201cA\u201d<\/a> \u00b7 104 landowner entries, Aug 23, 1924 \u2013 June 1, 1944 \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1ECBK6XUnAm6j0ialdfGJZsgK6SR5sH5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract files<\/a> \u00b7 Art. 13(b)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">4,662.2<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>Variable<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Rates vary by contract, generally 2.0 to 2.5 AF\/ac \u00b7 capped by the 3.5 right<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">3,497 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Poe Valley is reached by the \"E\" Canal and by District spill from the \"E\" and \"F\" Canals into the Lost River (per the District). Its 1953 contract names Lost River water. Poe Valley's lands are in the ACFFOD under KA 1000 and limited to 3.5 AF\/ac. The April 15 letter's 0.75 direction is stated for water from UKL and the Klamath River, which is what the \"E\" and \"F\" Canals carry. Confirm how the limit was applied to Poe Valley in 2026 before publishing the 1,977 AF figure. The published Warren Act page says Poe Valley is not served by carriage through District canals; that page needs the same correction. -->\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Poe Valley Improvement District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nT3YDdnAPDl15S9Yhmt_qpVcAN-YhG8I\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14-06-201-174<\/a> \u00b7 July 20, 1953, amended July 9, 1969 \u00b7 reached by the \u201cE\u201d Canal and by K.I.D. spill from the \u201cE\u201d and \u201cF\u201d Canals to the Lost River<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">2,636.1<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation, 14-06-201-174<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>9,226 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract states no quantity (Lost River, when available) \u00b7 named claimant in KA-1000; ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 right governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">1,977 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Klamath Basin Improvement District<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NtqKhFyXgd4lzDBjuoYPYl9v2B8rnqfQ\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14-06-200-41-A<\/a> \u00b7 Apr 25, 1962 \u00b7 Art. 13(c)<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">10,282.4<span class=\"ct\">Reclamation contract tabulation, 14-06-200-41-A<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>35,988 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract ceiling averages 3.6 AF\/ac of surplus water \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 \u2014 right governs<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">7,712 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"sub2\"><td>Contract lands<span class=\"ct\">oldest contract first<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">29,656.9<\/td><td class=\"basis\">69,843 AF + variable<\/td><td class=\"lim\">22,243 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n\n      <!-- EDIT ME: source needed for the ~109,000 AF 2026 anticipated diversion. The earlier \"about 45%\" did not reconcile (109,000 is 48.7% of 223,822 AF) and has been removed. The 2026 direction column totals 21,395 AF for contract lands. -->\n      <tr class=\"tot\"><td>Total served directly by K.I.D.<span class=\"ct\">volume excludes individual Warren Act contracts, which carry no single rate<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">73,650.6<\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>223,822 AF +<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"lim\"><strong>~109,000 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">2026 anticipated diversion<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\n\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Tulelake acreage 41,695.3 (Contract 14-06-200-5954, Article 4(d)) is corroborated by Reclamation's 1968 report: Tulelake I.D. 41,724 acres, Tule Lake Division California; K.I.D. Tule Lake Division Oregon 2,088 acres (contract: 2,078.8); total 43,812 (contract: 43,774.1). The 1968 report lists Colonial Realty (Westside) 1,190 separately and the Part 3 lease lands (18,556) as public land, so the reachable rows add. Decide whether the 2,088 Oregon Tule Lake Division acres, K.I.D. land served by Tulelake, should appear as their own row. Post the 1968 report so source 38 can link. -->\n      <!-- EDIT ME: refuge details verified against the Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003 (project file KBA_ACFFOD_KA1000): Claims 312 and 317 numbers, volumes, acreages, rates and the May 19, 1905 priority. NOT in that order: the refuges' federal reserved rights and the 1908\/1928 Executive Order dates; those rest on the Fish and Wildlife Service Record of Decision (source 29). Confirm from the separate determinations or cut those phrases. -->\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to review this block before publication. The District's position: its 1954 contract was not amended by Tulelake's 1956 contract, and its Article 14 obligations remain in full. Tulelake's contract separately took over the \"J\", \"M\" and \"N\" systems and the Exhibit \"2\" landowner contracts. Confirm counsel agrees with presenting both contracts as operating side by side. -->\n      <tr class=\"ref\"><td>K.I.D. \u201cJ\u201d Lands<span class=\"ct\">K.I.D. land in Oregon served through Tulelake's \u201cJ\u201d Canal \u00b7 KA-1000 \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art. 14(a)<\/a>; Tulelake contract Arts. 4(d) and 6(f); 1989 K.I.D.\u2013Tulelake contract \u00b7 separate from the 37,748.0-acre Main Division<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s40\">[40]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">2,078.8<span class=\"ct\">Tulelake contract, Art. 4(d); Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>7,276 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">No contract volume \u00b7 ACFFOD 3.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">n\/a<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"ref\"><td>Tulelake Irrigation District<span class=\"ct\">its own contract, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MhFboiHG6taTPkd5TAe87ULZm-tlbtlY\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14-06-200-5954<\/a><\/strong> (Sept 10, 1956): all water needed for beneficial use; states no acreage or volume. Article 33(a): a right in perpetuity to all water needed for beneficial irrigation use, delivered at such times and in such amounts as the district demands, subject only to facility capacity and reasonable beneficial use; Article 33(b): equal to other Reclamation Act contracts and prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a>. Signed two years after K.I.D.'s 1954 contract, it took over the \u201cJ\u201d, \u201cM\u201d and \u201cN\u201d Canal systems under Article 7(a). It did not amend K.I.D.'s contract: <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 14<\/a> of the 1954 contract, covering delivery to Tule Lake lands, remains in force.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">41,695.3<span class=\"ct\">Tulelake contract, Art. 4(d); Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>\u2014<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract states no volume \u00b7 served within Tulelake's own system, which K.I.D. spills to<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">n\/a<\/td><\/tr>\n      <!-- EDIT ME: Westside placed within the Article 14 block per the District. Still to confirm: the current district name against Tulelake Exhibit \"2\", Part 3, and the 2.5 AF\/ac surplus-water limit in the degraded Ilr-971 scan. -->\n      <tr class=\"gw\"><td>Westside Improvement District No. 4<span class=\"ct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1gHf3rAyYdjmEuX_e6KRlr0nb-c2nuNGE\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-971<\/a> \u00b7 Oct 20, 1936, executed by Colonial Realty Co. \u00b7 Warren Act \u00b7 delivered at the end of the J-1 Lateral. Within K.I.D.'s Article 14 obligations, which Tulelake's contract did not amend; also listed in Tulelake's 1956 contract at Article 6(a) and Exhibit \u201c2\u201d, Part 3 (1,190.0 acres). Not on K.I.D.'s Exhibit \u201cA,\u201d so not an Article 13(b) contract.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">1,190.0<span class=\"ct\">Tulelake contract, Exh. \u201c2\u201d, Pt. 3; Reclamation contract tabulation<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>2,975 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">Contract: surplus water only, not to exceed 2.5 AF\/ac<\/span><\/td><td class=\"lim\">893 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"ref\"><td>Tule Lake lease lands (Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge)<span class=\"ct\">Federal refuge land farmed under lease and served with water under Tulelake's contract, 14-06-200-5954.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup> <strong>The water right is not a contract.<\/strong> Claim 317, a vested water right in the name of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, filed on the United States' Notice of Appropriation of <strong>May 19, 1905<\/strong> and carrying that priority. The order treats it as the refuge's part of the same 1905 appropriation as the Project claim, naming the Service as claimant because it owns the land. It allows 49,902.3 acre-feet a year to irrigate up to 16,000 acres within a 17,967.3-acre place of use, at up to 249.5 cfs measured at Station 48. Only irrigation of agricultural cropland was approved: the portion claimed for flooding wetlands was denied as not a Reclamation Act purpose. The refuge's federal reserved right is a separate matter and is not part of this order. Tulelake's 1956 contract left United States jurisdiction over the refuge unchanged and capped the roughly 2,500 acres the United States then farmed there (Article 8).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> The <strong>Kuchel Act of 1964<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section695l&num=0&edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pub. L. 88-567<\/a>) governs how the refuge is administered and leased.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s18\">[18]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s29\">[29]<\/a><\/sup> Federal land, not K.I.D.'s to deliver or withhold.<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">16,000.0<span class=\"ct\">ACFFOD, Claim 317: approved irrigation of up to 16,000 acres a year within a 17,967.3-acre place of use<\/span><\/td><td class=\"basis\"><strong>49,902 AF<\/strong><span class=\"sub\">ACFFOD Claim 317<\/span><\/td><td class=\"na\">n\/a<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"sub2\"><td>Reachable through K.I.D. works \u2014 Article 14<span class=\"ct\">normally served by Station 48 and the Lost River Diversion Channel<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">60,964.1<\/td><td class=\"basis\">see note<\/td><td class=\"na\">n\/a<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody><\/table>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__fine\">Figures in acre-feet (AF), rounded to the nearest whole acre-foot. Contract links open the District's scanned copies in its public Google Drive archive.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s15\">[15]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n    <details class=\"kid-wr__notes\">\n      <summary>How the Tulelake, lease-land, \u201cJ\u201d and \u201cD\u201d Lands figures were reached<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__notes-body\">\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__notes-h\">Tulelake: 41,695.3 acres<\/p>\n        <ul>\n          <li>From Article 4(d) of Tulelake's 1956 contract: 43,774.1 acres of entered Tule Lake Division land, less 2,078.8 acres in Oregon within K.I.D.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li>Entered land only; public lease lands are not included. Reclamation's contract tabulation gives the same 41,695.3.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li>Tulelake reports 42,994 acres of its own land. That includes the 1,180.0 acres of \u201cD\u201d Lands K.I.D. serves, which this table counts in K.I.D.'s direct deliveries: 41,695.3 + 1,180.0 = 42,875.3, within 119 acres.<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__notes-h\">Tule Lake lease lands: 16,000 acres<\/p>\n        <ul>\n          <li>The irrigated acreage the adjudication approves under Claim 317, within a 17,967.3-acre place of use.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li>Reclamation's tabulation lists 17,300.4 acres of lease land, and Tulelake currently reports about 14,000 leased. Both fall within the adjudication's limits.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__notes-h\">\u201cJ\u201d and \u201cD\u201d Lands<\/p>\n        <ul>\n          <li><b>\u201cJ\u201d Lands:<\/b> K.I.D. land in Oregon served through Tulelake's \u201cJ\u201d Canal. Shown in the Article 14 block at 2,078.8 acres, separate from the Main Division; the 1989 K.I.D.\u2013Tulelake contract lists 2,177.0 assessable acres.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s40\">[40]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li><b>\u201cD\u201d Lands:<\/b> Tulelake land in California served through K.I.D.'s \u201cD\u201d Canal. 1,180.0 acres, counted in K.I.D.'s direct deliveries.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s40\">[40]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li><a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act contracts<\/a> Ilr-149, Ilr-159 and Ilr-175 (300.2 acres) also take water from the \u201cD\u201d Canal, but are counted with the individual Warren Act contracts, separate from the \u201cD\u201d Lands.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        <p class=\"kid-wr__notes-h\">Other notes<\/p>\n        <ul>\n          <li>Reclamation's 1968 report lists Tulelake, the Westside lands and the Tule Lake lease lands separately, so the Article 14 rows add rather than overlap.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s38\">[38]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li>Westside Improvement District No. 4 serves lands in California; no Oregon adjudication figure is asserted for it.<\/li>\n          <li>The consolidated Project claim is approved for irrigation of 154,955.9 acres in all.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n\n    <details class=\"kid-wr__notes\">\n      <summary>Klamath Project acreage figures over time<\/summary>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__notes-body\">\n        <p>Project acreage figures circulate with no date attached, which makes them look as though they disagree when they measure different things at different times.<\/p>\n        <ul>\n          <li><b>1913:<\/b> the Klamath Project annual history records about 122,000 acres served, the gravity-served area under what became the District's contract.<\/li>\n          <li><b>1951 and 1972:<\/b> about 190,000 acres irrigated in 1951 and 193,160 in 1972, when the Project was complete and capable of serving over 220,000 acres.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li><b>1962:<\/b> about 84,000 of the Project's 217,000 acres were served under the Warren Act; Klamath Basin Improvement District had 9,239 irrigable acres.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li><b>1968 and 1974:<\/b> Reclamation's annual histories list the Project at 222,954 and 224,138 irrigable acres.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s38\">[38]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s39\">[39]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li><b>Contract tabulation:<\/b> Reclamation lists 231,351.9 contract acres, of which 70,908.4 are served through the \u201cA\u201d Canal and 62,264.5 through Station 48.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s41\">[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n          <li><b>Adjudicated:<\/b> the Project claim's place of use is mapped at 154,955.9 acres, with a summer duty of 540,778 acre-feet from Upper Klamath Lake.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/details>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: moved from the Warren Act page. (1) The 1913 figure of 122,000 is the District's statement; the 1913 annual history has not been located in Drive or posted. (2) The Warren Act page also carried \"Today: 158,075 acres from Upper Klamath Lake, of which roughly 122,000 sit under the K.I.D. contract,\" from the 2026 Water Supply Update. That conflicts with Reclamation's tabulation (A Canal 70,908.4; Station 48 62,264.5) and is left off this page until the District resolves what it counts. -->\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\">Served directly, and reachable<\/h3>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li>The first two groups are the lands the District <b>serves itself<\/b>: through the \u201cA\u201d Canal and its distribution system and the Adams and Miller Hill Pumping Plants, all transferred to the District under Article 4, and to Poe Valley through the \u201cE\u201d Canal and by the District's spill from the \u201cE\u201d and \u201cF\u201d Canals into the Lost River, where Poe Valley picks it up.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li>The District's works can also reach <b>Tulelake Irrigation District<\/b> (41,695.3 acres), <b>Westside Improvement District No. 4<\/b> (1,190 acres) and the Tule Lake lease lands (16,000 acres), with K.I.D.'s \u201cJ\u201d Lands (2,078.8 acres), about 60,964 acres in all. The <b>Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge<\/b> lease lands lie inside Tulelake's boundaries but are public land, counted separately from Tulelake's acres. The refuge claim covers a 17,967.3-acre place of use with up to 16,000 acres irrigated a year.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> Those lands fall under Article 14 of the District's 1954 contract, which remains in force, as well as under Tulelake's own 1956 contract and the refuge's adjudicated claim. They are normally served by Station 48 and the Lost River Diversion Channel, which the United States reserved under Article 1(d).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n      <li><b>The District can serve them through the \u201cA\u201d Canal<\/b> when Station 48 is under repair or the Lost River Diversion Channel is closed. That capacity does not show in a delivery total, but it is part of what the District carries under Article 14.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\">Not counted here<\/h3>\n    <ul class=\"kid-wr__ul\">\n      <li>Eastside lands, river pumpers, Klamath Drainage District, and the rest of Tulelake Irrigation District.<\/li>\n      <li><b>Klamath Drainage District<\/b> is a separate system with its own adjudicated duty. It diverts below Link River Dam and is not reachable by the District's works.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ 6 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-project\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-project\">Where the District sits in the whole Project<\/h2>\n    <p>The adjudication sets the Project's summer duty, system by system. The District and Tulelake together carry more than three-quarters of it.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__wrap\">\n    <table class=\"kid-wr__duty\"><colgroup><col style=\"width:56%\"><col style=\"width:24%\"><col style=\"width:20%\"><\/colgroup>\n      <thead><tr><th>Adjudicated summer duty<\/th><th class=\"r\">Acre-feet<\/th><th class=\"r\">Share<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n      <tr class=\"kid\"><td>K.I.D. and T.I.D., combined<span class=\"ct2\">the largest summer diversion through the combined system between 1961 and 2000, not an acreage times 3.5. <strong>Includes Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge<\/strong> (Claim 317, 49,902.3 AF, priority May 19, 1905); the order places the refuge's water within this system, not in addition to it.<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">420,370<\/td><td class=\"p\">78%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Klamath Drainage District<span class=\"ct2\">diverts from the Keno Impoundment below Link River Dam and returns through the Klamath Straits Drain. <strong>Includes Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge<\/strong> (Claim 312, 35,000 AF to irrigate up to 10,000 acres a year within a 25,881.7-acre place of use, priority May 19, 1905).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">80,446<\/td><td class=\"p\">15%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Separately described systems<span class=\"ct2\">seventeen named in the order: Running Y 20,407 \u00b7 Miller Island Refuge 4,010 \u00b7 Plevna 3,135 \u00b7 Geary Bros. 3,056 \u00b7 A.D.I.C. 2,031 \u00b7 Cell Tech 1,747 \u00b7 P.D.I.C. 1,495 \u00b7 Schildmeyer 1,313 \u00b7 Johnston & Son 678 \u00b7 Kerns 549 \u00b7 Reames Golf 417 \u00b7 Memorial Park 334 \u00b7 Horton SC-7 257 \u00b7 Modoc Lumber 217 \u00b7 Griffith 132 \u00b7 Cove Point 114 \u00b7 Moore Park 70<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">39,962<\/td><td class=\"p\">7%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"tot\"><td>Klamath Project summer duty<\/td><td class=\"n\">540,778<\/td><td class=\"p\">100%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Winter duty<span class=\"ct2\">separate season \u2014 K.D.D. 28,910 AF and A.D.I.C. 412 AF<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">29,322<\/td><td class=\"p\">\u2014<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody><\/table>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__fine\">Summer and winter duties together total 570,100 acre-feet, the Project's maximum annual duty; the order states that this total includes the water used under refuge Claims 312 and 317. The summer season runs March 1 through October 31, and February 15 through November 15 for water taken at Station 48 and the No. 1 Drain. Klamath Drainage District was subject to the same 0.75 acre-feet per acre direction in 2026, but the District's works cannot deliver to it.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, Klamath Basin General Stream Adjudication, OAH Case 003: refuge claims filed on the 1905 Notice, p. 38; wetland flooding denied as not a reclamation use and Claims 312 and 317 treated as part of the same 1905 appropriation, pp. 42\u201343; refuge duties, p. 52 nn. 21\u201322; approval of Claims 312, 317 and the consolidated claim, p. 75; Claim No. 312 and Claim No. 317 descriptions (KBA_ACFFOD_07118\u201307121 and 07127\u201307129).<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ 7 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-who\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-who\">Who controls what<\/h2>\n    <p>Rights, works and contracts each answer to a different authority. The District controls only the middle one.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"kid-wr__cards\">\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__card\"><span class=\"kid-wr__tag\">The source<\/span><p class=\"kid-wr__card-t\">The State of Oregon<\/p><p>A water right is exercised when water is physically available, and curtailed when a senior right places a call and the watermaster regulates the source. The District cannot place a call; that is a state function.<\/p><p class=\"kid-wr__src\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_537.120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 537.120<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_540.045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 540.010\u2013540.045, 540.140\u2013540.145<\/a> \u00b7 OAR 690-250<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__card kid-wr__card--gold\"><span class=\"kid-wr__tag\">The works<\/span><p class=\"kid-wr__card-t\">The District<\/p><p>Distribution from the District's works is under the District's exclusive control, under equitable rules its Board is required to set. Under its current rules the District administers a queue through its <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Policy_KID_WATER-DELIVERY-POLICY_2025_01_09-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Delivery Policy<\/a>; the Board may change those rules, but Reclamation cannot set them. Where water is not used beneficially and without waste, the watermaster can reduce or end the District's diversion.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><p class=\"kid-wr__src\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_540.270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 540.270<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_545.221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 545.221<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_540.720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 540.710\u2013540.720<\/a><sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"kid-wr__card\"><span class=\"kid-wr__tag\">The federal contracts<\/span><p class=\"kid-wr__card-t\">The Secretary of the Interior<\/p><p>Under an Article 13(b) or 13(c) contract, the District may withhold delivery for non-payment (Article 13(d)) and must stop on notice from the Secretary that the contracting party is not entitled to water (Article 13(f)). Neither reaches Article 13(a) lands, the Van Brimmer settlement, or pre-Project rights.<\/p><p class=\"kid-wr__src\"><a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contract No. 14-06-200-3784, Article 13(d) and 13(f)<\/a><sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- ============ closing leaf ============ -->\n  <!-- EDIT ME: Nathan to review the closing stanza and its plain line before publishing. It characterises the ESA's effect on Project operations and states the District's Section 8 position; keep it consistent with the non-discretionary baseline and applicant-status positions argued elsewhere. -->\n  <div class=\"kid-wr__leaf-wrap\" style=\"margin-top:46px\">\n  <div class=\"kid-wr__leaf\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"A closing verse on the Endangered Species Act\">\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme kid-wr__rhyme--lead\"><span>Then came a law from distant halls,<\/span><span>not tried by fire nor sealed by hand.<\/span><\/p>\n    <i class=\"kid-wr__fleuron\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme\"><span>It holds no right and signs no bond,<\/span><span>yet sets its weight on lake and land.<\/span><span>The stored water waits upon its word;<\/span><span>the proven rights must stand and wait;<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__rhyme kid-wr__rhyme--close\"><span>and those who bear the water home<\/span><span>are told how little, and how late.<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__gloss\">The Endangered Species Act is neither a water right nor a contract. Section 7 requires every federal agency to ensure its actions are not likely to jeopardize a listed species, including the c'waam and koptu of Upper Klamath Lake. Reclamation operates the Project under biological opinions issued in 2024, and its April 2026 letters rest on them rather than on any right or contract.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s35\">[35]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s20\">[20]<\/a><\/sup> The District's position is that Section 8 of the Reclamation Act requires Reclamation to carry out its operations in conformity with Oregon water law.<sup class=\"kid-wr__cite\"><a href=\"#kid-wr-s24\">[24]<\/a><a href=\"#kid-wr-s25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup> More on the District's <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/home\/endangered-species-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endangered Species Act pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ============ 8 ============ -->\n  <section class=\"kid-wr__section\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-wr-deeper\">\n    <h2 class=\"kid-wr__h2\" id=\"kid-wr-deeper\">Go deeper<\/h2>\n    <a class=\"kid-wr__linkrow\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\"><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-l\">The Warren Act of 1911, annotated<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-m\">The history of the Warren Act, Exhibit \u201cA\u201d, what each Warren Act contract promises, and Klamath Basin Improvement District's 1962 contracts<\/span><\/a>\n    <a class=\"kid-wr__linkrow\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-l\">Contract No. 14-06-200-3784 (1954)<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-m\">The District's transferred-works contract with the United States, with Exhibit \u201cA\u201d (PDF)<\/span><\/a>\n    <a class=\"kid-wr__linkrow\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/home\/district-governance-accountability\/title-transfer\/title-transfer-faq\/\"><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-l\">Title Transfer: Questions & Answers<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-m\">Who owns the works the water runs through<\/span><\/a>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: supply the 2026 Season Record page URL and uncomment.\n    <a class=\"kid-wr__linkrow\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-l\">2026 Season Record<\/span><span class=\"kid-wr__linkrow-m\">How the season unfolded, and the letters behind the 0.75 direction<\/span><\/a>\n    -->\n\n    <h3 class=\"kid-wr__h3\" id=\"kid-wr-sources\">Sources<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__src\" style=\"margin-top:0\">Water-right facts rest on the adjudication first, then the District's contract, then other contracts. Statutes and court decisions are cited for the legal framework; correspondence is cited for what was said.<\/p>\n    <!-- EDIT ME: sources 20 and 21 (the April 2026 Reclamation letters and the District's July 1, 2026 letter) have no public link. Upload them to klamathid.org or the public Drive folder and add the links. -->\n    <ol class=\"kid-wr__srcs\">\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s1\"><b>Oregon Water Resources Department.<\/b> Klamath River Basin Adjudication, Amended and Corrected Findings of Fact and Order of Determination (ACFFOD), February 28, 2014, including the Corrected Partial Order of Determination for KA 1000, KA 1001 and KA 1004 (OAH Case 003) and the Effect of BOR Contracts, para. 21. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Z6bC8s1aB1ZTOgUxskcKQ689HDAAZCzw\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corrected Partial Order of Determination, OAH Case 003, with Appendix A (District copy, PDF)<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/owrd\/programs\/waterrights\/adjudications\/klamathriverbasinadj\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OWRD adjudication page<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s2\"><b>Contract No. 14-06-200-3784.<\/b> Amendatory contract, United States and Klamath Irrigation District, November 29, 1954. Articles 1(d), 4, 13, 14, 16, 19, 26 and 35; Exhibit \u201cA\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/14-06-200-3784-1954-11-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">klamathid.org (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s3\"><b>Contract No. 14-06-200-5954.<\/b> United States and Tulelake Irrigation District, September 10, 1956, made under the Reclamation Act and the Act of August 1, 1956 (Pub. L. 84-877). Articles 1(c)\u2013(d), 4(d), 6, 7, 8, 15(a)(iii), 33, 35 and 39; Exhibits \u201c1\u201d and \u201c2\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MhFboiHG6taTPkd5TAe87ULZm-tlbtlY\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s4\"><b>Van Brimmer Ditch Company settlement.<\/b> United States and Van Brimmer Ditch Company, November 6, 1909. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/18JB9Z9fPIbWCsFhXlCNnC6UeV3KVBI2F\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s5\"><b>Contract I8r-1065.<\/b> Amendatory and supplementary contract, Van Brimmer Ditch Company, February 3, 1943: water above 50 cfs; paragraph 22 (sometimes cited as Article 22), relief of the United States once an organization of Klamath Project water users takes over the operation, maintenance and control of the works delivering to the Company. The 1943 contract numbers its own provisions as paragraphs. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16-CZhjPAqaCwFIlWnwOgBtf_F91RHr04\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s6\"><b>Contract Ilr-403.<\/b> Pine Grove Irrigation District, December 21, 1918. Article 6. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1afRaQtPiGLbiWP86qjuAkBtkn_7pC5Qy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s7\"><b>Contract Ilr-403, supplemental.<\/b> Pine Grove Irrigation District, June 19, 1936 (maximum raised to 2.5 AF\/ac). <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ATE80P163dQB0LKEfjB-OaJjTCxgPo7S\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s8\"><b>Contract Ilr-399.<\/b> Enterprise Irrigation District, October 5, 1920. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1A8vzq657IpXeJG2neWMgwDUedkFH3xcg\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s9\"><b>Contract Ilr-195.<\/b> Malin Irrigation District, September 9, 1922. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZSEP8ZwggWSqgOGhCrOmw8_B--hNCqpQ\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s10\"><b>Contract Ilr-181.<\/b> Shasta View Irrigation District, October 6, 1922; see also Ilr-1531, August 20, 1948, the number listed on Exhibit \u201cA\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dZtG5cMvtuc2hvUKn5hmXCYNQoH0wfGa\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (1922 PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s11\"><b>Contract Ilr-1531.<\/b> Shasta View Irrigation District, August 20, 1948. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10LpTFP_3inpuSvDfzzj_HCVUEfnWsbtR\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s12\"><b>Contract Ilr-174.<\/b> Sunnyside Irrigation District, October 24, 1922. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/188fJ4b5csk8CNKsJ2fAvB-L7ILdrhEt1\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s13\"><b>Contract No. 14-06-201-174.<\/b> Poe Valley Improvement District, July 20, 1953. Articles 1, 2 and 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nT3YDdnAPDl15S9Yhmt_qpVcAN-YhG8I\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s14\"><b>Contract No. 14-06-200-41-A.<\/b> Klamath Basin Improvement District, April 25, 1962. Part A, Articles 1(j), 2(a) and 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NtqKhFyXgd4lzDBjuoYPYl9v2B8rnqfQ\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s15\"><b>Contract Ilr-971.<\/b> Colonial Realty Co., October 20, 1936 (Westside Improvement District No. 4 lands). <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1gHf3rAyYdjmEuX_e6KRlr0nb-c2nuNGE\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s16\"><b>Individual Warren Act contracts.<\/b> Scanned contracts for the individual landowners listed on Exhibit \u201cA\u201d; terms on this page read from <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1YcWBiYDNFbHw23WCQtFKNxrg1fbrIkBk\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-143<\/a> (May 16, 1927), <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16x9-l30KPq7P15g_Di1ameKtDryi8DL3\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilr-151<\/a> (May 24, 1927, supplemented May 18, 1936) and <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Ft5af9kqsx9gWaeexuUc0aA9M19m6upi\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I8r-374<\/a> (Dec 18, 1930). <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1ECBK6XUnAm6j0ialdfGJZsgK6SR5sH5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive folder<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s17\"><b>Warren Act of 1911.<\/b> Act of February 21, 1911, 36 Stat. 925, 43 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 523\u2013525. <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section523&num=0&edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Code<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s18\"><b>Kuchel Act of 1964.<\/b> Pub. L. 88-567, 78 Stat. 850, 16 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 695k\u2013695r. <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section695l&num=0&edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Code<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s19\"><b>Oregon Revised Statutes, district distribution.<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_540.045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 540.045<\/a> (watermaster duties); <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_540.270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 540.270<\/a> (district control of distribution); <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_545.221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORS 545.221(1)(c)<\/a> (Board rules for distribution and use of water).<\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s20\"><b>Bureau of Reclamation, Klamath Basin Area Office.<\/b> Water availability letters of April 6 and April 15, 2026, file reference KO-300, 2.2.4.22. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s21\"><b>Klamath Irrigation District.<\/b> Letter to the Klamath Basin Area Office, July 1, 2026. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s22\"><b>Klamath Irrigation District.<\/b> Patron Water Management and Delivery Policy. <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Policy_KID_WATER-DELIVERY-POLICY_2025_01_09-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">klamathid.org (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s23\"><b>Oregon Water Resources Department.<\/b> Determination on status of releases of water stored in Upper Klamath Lake, 2021 (summarising KA 294 and KA 1000 ownership). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/owrd\/programs\/regulation\/KlamathRegulation\/2020%20KIDBOR\/Stored_Water_Determination_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oregon.gov (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s24\"><b>Reclamation Act of 1902, \u00a7 8.<\/b> Act of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, 390; 43 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 372 and 383. <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section383&num=0&edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Code<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s25\"><b><em>California v. United States<\/em>.<\/b> 438 U.S. 645 (1978). <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/438\/645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justia<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s26\"><b><em>Ickes v. Fox<\/em>.<\/b> 300 U.S. 82 (1937). <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/300\/82\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justia<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s27\"><b><em>Nevada v. United States<\/em>.<\/b> 463 U.S. 110 (1983). <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/463\/110\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justia<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s28\"><b>Oregon Revised Statutes, water rights.<\/b> ORS 537.120 (rights vested before the 1909 Water Rights Act protected); ORS 537.130(2) (no use, storage or diversion without a permit, except exempt uses); ORS 539.170 (division of water under the Director's order pending court review). <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_537.130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oregon.public.law<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s29\"><b>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.<\/b> Record of Decision, Lower Klamath, Clear Lake, Tule Lake, Upper Klamath and Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuges Comprehensive Conservation Plan (2017): each refuge maintains a 1905 irrigation right and a federal reserved water right under the Final Order of Determination. <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.fws.gov\/APPS\/ServCat\/DownloadFile\/219613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fws.gov (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s30\"><b>Reclamation Act of 1902, \u00a7 6.<\/b> 43 U.S.C. \u00a7 498: title to and management and operation of reservoirs and the works necessary for their protection and operation remain in the Government until otherwise provided by Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section498&num=0&edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Code<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s31\"><b>Corrected Partial Order of Determination, Claim 622 (Upper Klamath Lake).<\/b> Klamath Basin General Stream Adjudication, February 28, 2014 (KBA_ACFFOD_04938\u201304946): claimant, purpose, minimum lake levels, time-immemorial priority, and the amended stipulation's conditional no-call terms. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Z6YcShbD-NZOGm5rMNi2gnzEEB2lS8vy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s32\"><b>Klamath River Basin Compact (1957).<\/b> ORS 542.620; Pub. L. 85-222, 71 Stat. 497. <a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_542.620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oregon.public.law<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s33\"><b>Contract, United States and Klamath Water Users Association.<\/b> November 6, 1905: the landowners' repayment agreement for the Klamath Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dg-6ECdwxQybrHW4mr7cNepypxDPjxXy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s34\"><b>Contract Ilr-173.<\/b> United States, Klamath Irrigation District and Klamath Water Users Association, July 6, 1918, approved September 10, 1918: Article 1(e) (Henley-Ankeny tracts), Articles 2\u20133 (release of the Association from its 1905 contract; District assumes the charges), Article 6 (operation passes to the District under Section 6 of the Reclamation Act); amended June 28, 1920, April 10, 1922, June 25, 1927, November 24, 1928, April 1, 1938 and June 2, 1950; and continued in force by Article 2 of Contract No. 14-06-200-3784. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10uQwIMcEELv7oGdU4P1EPIMinasvoSXy\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Drive (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s35\"><b>Endangered Species Act of 1973, \u00a7 7.<\/b> 16 U.S.C. \u00a7 1536(a)(2): each federal agency shall insure that any action it authorizes, funds or carries out is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of a listed species. <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1536&num=0&edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Code<\/a><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s36\"><b>Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Klamath Lake stage-storage curve (2026).<\/b> \u201cUKL storage with Agency\u201d table, 0.25-foot breakpoints from 4,136.0 to 4,145.0 feet, as used in the District's water dashboard. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s37\"><b>Klamath Irrigation District, natural-conditions reconstruction of Upper and Lower Klamath Lake.<\/b> Water years 1992, 2016 and 1999; Reclamation net inflow; Koppen pre-dam Link River rating; Reclamation 2026 capacity curve. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s38\"><b>Bureau of Reclamation, Klamath Project, Annual Operation and Maintenance Report, 1968.<\/b> \u201cProject Service Areas \u2013 1968,\u201d \u201cProject Distribution System Areas \u2013 1968\u201d and Form 7-316, Status of Irrigable Lands and Crop Value Data. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s39\"><b>Bureau of Reclamation, Klamath Project, Annual Operation and Maintenance Report (Annual History), 1974.<\/b> Form 7-316a, Status of Irrigable Lands and Crop Value Data; Mid-Pacific Region list of executed contracts. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s40\"><b>Contract between Tulelake Irrigation District and Klamath Irrigation District to Provide for Irrigation Service to Oregon J Lands and California D Lands.<\/b> May 17, 1989, effective January 1, 1989; replaces the inter-district agreement of May 22, 1978. Exhibit A, Oregon J Lands, 2,177.0 assessable acres. <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n      <li id=\"kid-wr-s41\"><b>Bureau of Reclamation, Klamath Project contract tabulation.<\/b> Undated schedule of Project contracts by division, contract type, supply source, original and current contractor, contract number and contract acreage, with summaries by division (231,351.9 acres), water source, contract type and Upper Klamath Lake point of diversion (A Canal 70,908.4 acres; Station 48, 62,264.5 acres). <em>Not yet posted.<\/em><\/li>\n    <\/ol>\n    <p class=\"kid-wr__note\">Questions about a specific contract or account are best answered directly. 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