A-14129
Irrigation · Blue River, Big · Butler County, Nebraska
Priority date
March 31, 1976
7th most senior of 9 rights on Blue River, Big in Butler County
- Owner
- Douglas D & Joan J Matulka
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Surface water appropriation
- Source
- Blue River, Big
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 0.79 cfs (354.6 gpm)
- Volume
- 165.6 acre-feet
- Acres
- 55.2
- County
- Butler County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 41.04890, -97.19698)
- Administrative notice
- Open (effective 2026-07-31)
- Flow type
- Direct Flow
- Natural resources district
- Upper Big Blue
- Legal location
- SE SE S33 T13N-R02E
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.
- #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
- #6Mar 19, 1975A-13483Blue River, Big · IrrigationDouglas D & Joan J Matulka · 0.39 cfs, 81 AF
- #7 · this right
- #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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