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