California Water Rights Complaints

A complaint may be filed against the holder of an application permit or license, or against a water user who does not appear to have a valid water right. Each row represents the unique complaint record and the associated investigations (inspections, enforcement actions, violations, the "Points of Investigation" (POI) and the associated water right Application ID will be available under the INVESTIGATIONS dataset).

Not all complaints are associated to a water right so there may not be any water right associated to the complaint and one complaint may be associated with multiple complainants, multiple respondents and multiple water right IDs. This file is in flat file LONG format and does not include all the information associated to a water right or investigation. Other information may be available in the associated flat files for each category. waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/enforcement/complaints/