Nooksack Watershed General Stream Adjudication

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  • In General Stream Adjudication water rights holders brought into a single lawsuit.
  • Nooksack and Lummi Tribes are interested in quantifying their senior water rights necessary to support their treaty fishing rights.
  • It took 42 years in the Yakima (1977-2019). To what extent did it include the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan of 2012 and the 50,000 acre Teanaway Community Forest in 2013.