A-13374
Irrigation · Blue River, Big · Butler County, Nebraska
Priority date
January 29, 1975
5th most senior of 9 rights on Blue River, Big in Butler County
- Owner
- Robert E & Marilyn R Schmitt
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Surface water appropriation
- Source
- Blue River, Big
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2 cfs (897.7 gpm)
- Volume
- 420 acre-feet
- Acres
- 140
- County
- Butler County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 41.05711, -97.19182)
- Administrative notice
- Open (effective 2026-07-31)
- Flow type
- Direct Flow
- Natural resources district
- Upper Big Blue
- Legal location
- SW NW S34 T13N-R02E
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Its place on Blue River, Big
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Oct 13, 1941A-3519Blue River, Big · StorageVillage of Surprise · 21 AF
- #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
- #5 · this right
- #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
- #9Mar 2, 1984A-16277Blue River, Big · IrrigationErnie & Doris A Shonka Trust · 0.86 cfs, 180 AF
From Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, Surface water rights diversions + registered groundwater wells, 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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