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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.