CONTACT US AT
Arizona Navigable Stream Adjudication Commission (ANSAC)
1700 W. Washington St., Rm B-54
Phoenix, AZ 85007
E: nav.streams@ansac.az.gov
V: 602.542.9214
F: 602.542.9220
NOTICE TO READERS
ANSAC does NOT deal with Water Rights, Water Use, Water Ownership, or Water Diversion Issues and Deals only with Matters Relating to Land Title to the Beds of Arizona's 39,039 Rivers and Streams. The official source for dates, times and locations of hearings or other ANSAC meetings is what is known as the State kiosk and computers/kioks listing meeting notices are located in the lobbies of the Senate and House. A reader can learn of all state agency, board, and commission meetings by checking at a kiosk, or by checking online under State of Arizona, “Arizona Public Meeting Notices” or by using other similar text to find the ADOA official public meeting notices site.
OFFICE HOURS
Normal Business Hours are 8:00-5:00. When we are away from the office we try always to forward the office phone to a phone number that will be answered and that is also a message phone.
We ask that you make an appointment to visit the office to review evidence for two reasons. 1. So we can have the boxes you will need ready and 2. So two parties who want to review the same evidence but who are on opposite sides of the issue do not drop in at the same time. This has occurred a few times.
SUNSET DATE
Once ANSAC's work is done it will Sunset or go out of business. The present Sunset Date is June 30, 2020, however, the Commission expects to complete its work before that date.
COMMISSION/ANSAC HEARINGS
PURPOSE: To help clear more than 100,00 clouded Arizona property titles to the land beneath Arizona's 39,039 rivers and streams. As mentioned earlier, ANSAC's work pertains only to land beneath rivers and streams and not to water issues such as ownership, use, or diversion of water. There are many existing laws and agencies that deal with water ownership and use matters. Only the Colorado River is excluded from the ANSAC process, the bed of which is already owned by the government.
HOW: By gathering evidence, including engineering studies, and holding evidentiary navigability hearings on all of Arizona's 39,039 watercourses and in each of Arizona's 15 counties to determine which watercourses were navigable and which were non-navigable at time of statehood February 14, 1912.
If a Watercourse was NAVIGABLE at statehood then the bed/the land beneath the watercourse is subject to government ownership. It is subject to being owned by the State.
If a Watercourse was NON-NAVIGABLE at statehood then the bed/the land beneath the watercourse is subject to private ownership by the party whose land it crosses.
Commissioners:
- Wade Noble, Chair
- Jim Henness, Vice Chair
- Bill Allen, Member
- Jim Horton, Member
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Staff:
- George Mehnert, Director
- Matthew Rojas, Attorney
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