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Water Use
The Pawnee-Buckner subbasin has a total of 1,223 water rights with an authorized quantity of 249,331 acre-feet. The average water use over the 20 year span was 113,360 acre-feet. Water rights are broken into vested rights and appropriated rights. Water use includes irrigation, municipal, domestic, stock, recreation and industrial water rights. Note: Some water use data came from unmetered sources -- rate/hrs.
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Type |
Source |
Number of Rights |
Authorized Quantity |
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Vested |
Surface Water |
27 |
5,218 |
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Vested |
Groundwater |
126 |
20,990 |
|
Appropriated |
Surface Water |
33 |
7,674 |
|
Appropriated |
Groundwater |
1,037 |
215,450 |
The Points of Diversion map includes some surface water rights that are used for watershed dams and account for evaporation.