The State Water Resource Control Board’s Emergency Regulation provides authority to curtail water rights to meet minimum instream flow requirements. In the Scott River watershed, the minimum flow requirement is 50 cubic feet per second (cfs) at the Fort Jones United States Geologic Survey (Fort Jones USGS gage) in July and 30 cfs in August.
Since June 4, 2024, flows at the Fort Jones gage have been on a steady decline dropping from…
