A-3519
Storage · Blue River, Big · Butler County, Nebraska
Priority date
October 13, 1941
1st most senior of 9 rights on Blue River, Big in Butler County
- Owner
- Village of Surprise
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Surface water appropriation
- Source
- Blue River, Big
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Storage
- Volume
- 21 acre-feet
- County
- Butler County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 41.10242, -97.30758)
- Administrative notice
- Open (effective 2026-07-31)
- Flow type
- Storage
- Natural resources district
- Upper Big Blue
- Legal location
- NW NW S15 T13N-R01E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Blue River, Big
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Feb 26, 1951A-4809Blue River, Big · IrrigationRobert E & Marilyn R Schmitt · 0.29 cfs, 117.6 AF
- #3Jan 4, 1960A-9787Blue River, Big · IrrigationO-X Farms LLC · 1.57 cfs, 330 AF
- #4Aug 29, 1974A-13180Blue River, Big · IrrigationO-X Farms LLC · 0.91 cfs, 192 AF
- #5Jan 29, 1975A-13374Blue River, Big · IrrigationRobert E & Marilyn R Schmitt · 2 cfs, 420 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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