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RCW 90.44.020 Purpose of chapter.
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This chapter regulating and controlling groundwaters of the state of Washington shall be supplemental to chapter 90.03 RCW, which regulates the surface waters of the state, and is enacted for the purpose of extending the application of such surface water statutes to the appropria…
RCW 90.44.030 Chapter not to affect surface water rights.
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The rights to appropriate the surface waters of the state and the rights acquired by the appropriation and use of surface waters shall not be affected or impaired by any of the provisions of this supplementary chapter and, to the extent that any underground water is part of or tr…
RCW 90.44.035 Definitions.
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For purposes of this chapter: (1) "Department" means the department of ecology; (2) "Director" means the director of ecology; (3) "Groundwaters" means all waters that exist beneath the land surface or beneath the bed of any stream, lake or reservoir, or other body of surface wate…
RCW 90.44.040 Public groundwaters subject to appropriation.
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Subject to existing rights, all natural groundwaters of the state as defined in RCW 90.44.035, also all artificial groundwaters that have been abandoned or forfeited, are hereby declared to be public groundwaters and to belong to the public and to be subject to appropriation for …
