Water right 40H 199783 00
Irrigation · Big Sandy Creek · Chouteau County, Montana
Priority date
July 6, 1941
28th most senior of 30 rights on Big Sandy Creek in Chouteau County
- Owner
- Clete Ophus
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Sandy Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5 cfs (2,244.2 gpm)
- Acres
- 175.6
- County
- Chouteau County
- Points of diversion
- 3 (first at 48.19382, -110.09106)
- Version
- Final
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 03/15 to 11/15
- Legal location
- T28N R13E Sec. 8 NESWSW
- Scanned documents
- Open
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Its place on Big Sandy Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #24Dec 31, 191840H 144253 00Big Sandy Creek · MunicipalBig Sandy, Town of · 0.22 cfs, 32 AF
- #25Jan 1, 193540H 48311 00Big Sandy Creek · StockKeith J Smelser; Valerie J Smelser
- #26Jan 1, 193540H 48314 00Big Sandy Creek · StockKeith J Smelser; Valerie J Smelser
- #27Jul 6, 194140H 159320 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationChauvet Ranch Co; Chauvet Real Estate LLC; Chauvet, Scott M Revocable Trust; Chauvet, Shelley L Revocable Trust
- #28 · this right
- #29Dec 31, 195140H 199781 00Big Sandy Creek · StockClete Ophus · 5 cfs
- #30Jan 19, 197140H 158959 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationJanet K Sheehy · 3.5 cfs, 140 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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