A-186R
Irrigation · Melbeta Creek · Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
Priority date
October 22, 1895
2nd most senior of 6 rights on Melbeta Creek in Scotts Bluff County
- Owner
- Chet & Julie Cochran
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Surface water appropriation
- Source
- Melbeta Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 1.28 cfs (574.5 gpm)
- Volume
- 268.1 acre-feet
- Acres
- 89.4
- County
- Scotts Bluff County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 41.76863, -103.52882)
- Administrative notice
- Open (effective 2026-09-07)
- Flow type
- Direct Flow
- Natural resources district
- North Platte
- Legal location
- NW NE S25 T21N-R54W
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Melbeta Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Oct 22, 1895A-186RMelbeta Creek · IrrigationDaniel & Rebecca Fitts · 0.88 cfs, 185.4 AF
- #2 · this right
- #3Mar 19, 1909A-937CMelbeta Creek · IrrigationZachary & Merissa Donnan · 0.06 cfs, 12 AF
- #4Mar 19, 1909A-937AMelbeta Creek · IrrigationDonald E & Naomi L Dillman · 0.61 cfs, 129 AF
- #5Mar 19, 1909A-937BMelbeta Creek · IrrigationChet & Julie Cochran · 0.29 cfs, 60.9 AF
- #6Aug 21, 1912A-1220Melbeta Creek · IrrigationChet & Julie Cochran · 0.86 cfs, 179.0 AF
From Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, Surface water rights diversions + registered groundwater wells, fetched October 8, 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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