Water Use

The Upper Arkansas River subbasin has a total of 4,262 water rights with an authorized quantity of 1,565,497.40 acre-feet.  The average water use was 948,123.81 acre-feet.  This analysis used all irrigation, industrial, recreation, municipal, domestic and stock water rights.

Source

Type

No. of Rights

Authorized Quantity

Surface

Vested

20

150,249.00

Ground

Vested

344

104,430.40

Surface

Appropriated

39

8,773.00

Ground

Appropriated

3,859

1,302,045.00

Water Use

The Points of Diversion map includes some surface water rights that are used for watershed dams and account for evaporation.