Excerpt from the Idaho Comprehensive State Water Plan

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View the plan for the South Fork of the Snake River basin

Protected Rivers
Stream name: Little Elk Creek
River name: South Fork of the Snake River
Description: Headwaters to confluence with Spring Run Canyon
Classification: Natural
Stream length, in miles (unless otherwise noted): 3.5

These activities are not allowed on this stream:

• Alterations of the stream bed
• Construction of hydropower projects
• Construction of Water Diversion works
• Construction or expansion of dams or impoundments
• Dredge or Placer Mining
• Mineral or Sand and Gravel extraction within the stream bed

Special considerations:

Headwaters to Mouth unless specified. A recreational designation for the South Fork Snake River is not intended to prevent a water user from cleaning, maintaining, or replacing an existing water diversion structure. A water user may remove obstructions from the stream channel such as gravel bars, if the obstructions interfere with the delivery or use of water under any existing water right. Prohibitions for natural or recreational designations do not interfere with activities necessary to maintain and improve existing utilities, roadways, managed stream access facilities, diversion works, and for the maintenance of private property. State designation does not change or infringe upon existing water rights or other vested property rights. It does not restrict the expansion or maintenance of existing uses.