Water right 40H 1978 00
Irrigation, Stock · Big Sandy Creek · Hill County, Montana
Priority date
April 8, 1974
25th most senior of 27 rights on Big Sandy Creek in Hill County
- Owner
- Arthur A Patera
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Provisional Permit
- Source
- Big Sandy Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation, Stock
- Flow rate
- 4.67 cfs (2,096 gpm)
- Volume
- 112.7 acre-feet
- Acres
- 41.4
- County
- Hill County
- Points of diversion
- 2 (first at 48.53491, -109.83730)
- Version
- Original Right
- Means of diversion
- Pump
- Period of diversion
- 04/15 to 09/01
- Legal location
- T32N R15E Sec. 18 NWSENW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Sandy Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #21Dec 31, 196040H 131231 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationAmber I Gilge; Kody L Gilge · 0.1 cfs
- #22Dec 31, 196240H 18635 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationColeen Fitzgibbon; Thomas E Otterness · 0.04 cfs
- #23Dec 31, 196740H 214311 00Big Sandy Creek · Lawn and GardenBeverly E Inman; Jill Krass; Lorin Krass · 0.33 cfs, 1 AF
- #24May 1, 197240H 157677 00Big Sandy Creek · Lawn and GardenCharles D Gehringer; Sharon M Gehringer · 0.03 cfs, 2 AF
- #25 · this right
- #26Jan 23, 197540H 4665 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationGerald F Kinsella; Laura M Kinsella · 1.56 cfs, 97 AF
- #27Nov 5, 197940H 25476 00Big Sandy Creek · Lawn and GardenAmanda Hamiilton; Seth J Hamilton · 0.33 cfs, 1.25 AF
From Montana DNRC, Water Resources Division, Water Right Query System points of diversion, fetched October 12, 2026. The state's own record is the authority: amounts, owners and status here can lag behind it, and a mapped point of diversion says nothing about which parcel the right serves. This page is not legal advice.
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