Water Use

The Pawnee-Buckner subbasin has a total of 1,223 water rights with an authorized quantity of 249,330.97 acre-feet.  The average water use over the 20 year span was 113,360 acre-feet.  Water use includes irrigation, municipal, domestic, stock, recreation and industrial water rights.  Note: Some water use data came from unmetered sources -- rate/hrs.

Type

Source

Number of Rights

Authorized Quantity

Vested

Surface Water

27

5,218.00

Vested

Groundwater

126

20,989.92

Appropriated

Surface Water

33

7,673.55

Appropriated

Groundwater

1,037

215,449.50

Water Use

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