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Water Use
The Middle Arkansas River subbasin has a total of 1,464 water rights with an authorized quantity of 262,657 acre-feet. The average water use over the 20 year span was 158,668 acre-feet. Irrigation, stock, domestic, recreation, industrial and municipal water rights are used for this water use analysis.
Source | Type | No. of Rights | Authorized Quantity (AF) |
Surface | Vested | 1 | 75.00 |
Ground | Vested | 48 | 5,572.91 |
Surface | Appropriated | 8 | 24,531.55 |
Ground | Appropriated | 1,407 | 232,477.20 |
The Points of Diversion map includes some surface water rights that are used for watershed dams and account for evaporation.