Water Use

The Pawnee-Buckner subbasin has a total of 1,193 water rights with an authorized quantity of 242,271 acre-feet.  The average water use over the 21 year span was 104,258 acre-feet.  Water rights are broken into vested rights and appropriation rights.  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 26 5,128
Vested Groundwater 123 20,186
Appropriated   Surface 31 7,354
Appropriated Groundwater 1,013 209,604

Pawnee Buckner Water Use

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

Kansas Department of Agriculture