Water right 40J 40828 00
Irrigation · Milk River · Blaine County, Montana
Priority date
March 21, 1889
1st most senior of 84 rights on Milk River in Blaine County
- Owner
- Alfalfa Valley Irrigation District; Fort Belknap Irrigation District; USA (Dept of Interior Bureau of Reclamation); Zurich Irrigation District
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Milk River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Fort Belknap Canal
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 130 cfs (58,347.9 gpm)
- Acres
- 17,810
- County
- Blaine County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 48.60153, -109.40544)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Diversion Dam
- Period of diversion
- 04/01 to 10/31
- Legal location
- T33N R18E Sec. 20 SWNWSE
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Milk River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Mar 21, 188940J 40944 00Milk River · IrrigationUSA (Dept of Interior Bureau of Reclamation) · 3.74 cfs, 371 AF
- #3Apr 15, 189040J 137810 00Milk River · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #4Apr 15, 189040J 137818 00Milk River · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #5Apr 15, 189040J 137819 00Milk River · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
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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