A-16277
Irrigation · Blue River, Big · Butler County, Nebraska
Priority date
March 2, 1984
9th most senior of 9 rights on Blue River, Big in Butler County
- Owner
- Ernie & Doris A Shonka Trust
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Surface water appropriation
- Source
- Blue River, Big
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 0.86 cfs (386 gpm)
- Volume
- 180 acre-feet
- Acres
- 60
- County
- Butler County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 41.10256, -97.32691)
- Administrative notice
- Open (effective 2026-07-31)
- Flow type
- Direct Flow
- Natural resources district
- Upper Big Blue
- Legal location
- NW NW S16 T13N-R01E
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Its place on Blue River, Big
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #5Jan 29, 1975A-13374Blue River, Big · IrrigationRobert E & Marilyn R Schmitt · 2 cfs, 420 AF
- #6Mar 19, 1975A-13483Blue River, Big · IrrigationDouglas D & Joan J Matulka · 0.39 cfs, 81 AF
- #7Mar 31, 1976A-14129Blue River, Big · IrrigationDouglas D & Joan J Matulka · 0.79 cfs, 165.6 AF
- #8Jul 12, 1976A-14313Blue River, Big · IrrigationLoretta A Rathjen · 0.96 cfs, 201 AF
- #9 · this right
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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