Water right 5878A-3
Recreation · Missouri River · Union County, South Dakota
Priority date
August 17, 1979
3rd most senior of 7 rights on Missouri River in Union County
- Owner
- McCook Lake Recreation Assn
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- Missouri River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Recreation
- Flow rate
- 12.9 cfs (5,785.4 gpm)
- County
- Union County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 42.51960, -96.54425)
- Legal location
- SW1/4SW1/4 Sec. 17-T89N-R48W
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Missouri River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Mar 24, 19773807-3Missouri River · IrrigationSd Parks & Wildlife Foundation · 3 cfs
- #2Aug 17, 19794430-3Missouri River · RecreationMcCook Lake Recreation Assn · 1.27 cfs
- #3 · this right
- #4Mar 17, 19814673-3Missouri River · MunicipalCity of Elk Point
- #5Aug 12, 19935781-3Missouri River · RecreationMcCook Lake Recreation Assn · 6.22 cfs
- #6Aug 18, 19955878-3Missouri River · RecreationMcCook Lake Recreation Assn · 6.67 cfs
- #7Mar 11, 20046479-3Missouri River · RecreationMcCook Lake Recreation Assn · 13.85 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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