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Water Use
The Rattlesnake Creek subbasin has a total of 1,275 water rights with an authorized quantity of 249,009 acre-feet. The subbasin has very few vested water rights compared to appropriated rights. Water use includes irrigation, municipal, domestic, stock, recreation and industrial water rights.
|
Type |
Source |
Number of Rights |
Authorized Quantity |
|
Vested |
Surface Water |
2 |
222 |
|
Appropriated |
Surface Water |
3 |
14,721 |
|
Vested |
Groundwater |
11 |
3,073 |
|
Appropriated |
Groundwater |
1,259 |
230,993 |
The Points of Diversion map includes some surface water rights that are used for watershed dams and account for evaporation.