Water right 1790-1
Irrigation · Grand River · Perkins County, South Dakota
Priority date
March 24, 2003
8th most senior of 9 rights on Grand River in Perkins County
- Owner
- John H Merriman
- Status
- Permit
- Record type
- Permit
- Source
- Grand River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2.06 cfs (924.6 gpm)
- Acres
- 144
- County
- Perkins County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.75928, -102.19278)
- Legal location
- N1/2NW1/4 Sec. 30-T21N-R16E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Grand River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #4Apr 18, 19771137-1Grand River · IrrigationJohn H Merriman · 0.75 cfs
- #5Apr 10, 1980897B-1Grand River · IrrigationDean Ladue · 0.89 cfs
- #6Nov 18, 19881544-1Grand River · IrrigationArvetta Wiesinger · 1.49 cfs
- #7Mar 20, 19911516-1Grand River · IrrigationWillard D/Mary P Ottman · 0.56 cfs
- #8 · this right
- #9Mar 19, 20101912-1Grand River · Rural Water SystemPerkins County Rural Water System · 0.89 cfs
From South Dakota DANR, Water Rights Program, Water rights web map export (CSV), 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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