This adjudication is the process of determining claims to the use of surface water in the Klamath River Basin.  The first phase was the review and determination of these claims by the Oregon Water Resources Department, including the hearing of contests to claims and the issuance of proposed orders by administrative law judges from the State’s Office of Administrative Hearings. With Department’s issuance of the Adjudicator’s Findings of Fact and Final Order of Determination on March 7, 2013, this phase of the process is now complete.

The second phase of the process is now beginning.  This is the review of the Final Order of Determination by the courts. Adjudication claimants or contestants who dispute the Department’s determination of their claims or contests will have an opportunity to file exceptions with the Klamath County Circuit Court.  The Court will then review these exceptions, and will ultimately issue a water rights decree affirming or modifying the Final Order of Determination. The Department can issue water right certificates in accordance with the decree once it is issued by the court.

Claim Listing by Claim Number
Claim Listing by Claimant

• Claimant Names and Addresses -- Search for party by name, claim number or OAH case number.
• Contestant Names and Addresses -- Search for party by name, claim number or OAH case number.

• Claim Statistics -- View the overall progress of the contested claims.
• Pleadings by Claim filed with Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) - Search for Pleadings.
• Contested Case Resolution Documents - View Resolution Documents.
• Outdated Captions & Service Lists
• Summary Preliminary Evaluation of Claims (October 4, 1999)
• 1997-2001 Alternate Dispute Resolution

• View Old Decrees -- (formerly the Vault)
• Search for Claims by Location
• Map of Adjudicated Areas in Oregon