WDID 0404146
Storage, Irrigation, Municipal · Big Thompson River · Larimer County, Colorado
Priority date
October 1, 1881
268th most senior of 734 rights on Big Thompson River in Larimer County
- Owner
- Not in Colorado's decreed-rights data. These rights convey by deed, so ownership is traced through county property records.
- Status
- Absolute
- Record type
- Decreed water right
- Source
- Big Thompson River
- Kind of source
- Storage
- Name
- Welch Res
- Uses
- Storage, Irrigation, Municipal, Fishery, Augmentation, Cumulative accretion to river, Wildlife
- Volume
- 1,901.2 acre-feet
- County
- Larimer County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.32648, -105.11772)
- Structure type
- Reservoir
- WDID
- 0404146
- Adjudication date
- 1931-04-01
- Administration number
- 24286.11597
- Court case numbers
- 14CW3016, 00CW0110, 01CW0182, CA9079
- Water division / district
- 1 / 4
- Absolute amount
- 1901.16 acre-feet
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Thompson River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #264Apr 1, 1881WDID 0400532Big Thompson River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal297.4 cfs
- #265Jul 15, 1881WDID 0404115Big Thompson River · Irrigation456 AF
- #266Jul 15, 1881WDID 0400524Big Thompson River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal278.8 cfs
- #267Jul 15, 1881WDID 0400530Big Thompson River · Storage20 cfs
- #268 · this right
- #269Oct 1, 1881WDID 0400521Big Thompson River · Storage250 cfs
- #270Oct 6, 1881WDID 0400523Big Thompson River · Storage, Irrigation, Commercial45.69 cfs
- #271Jul 10, 1882WDID 0404118Big Thompson River · Irrigation220 AF
- #272Nov 20, 1882WDID 0400521Big Thompson River · Storage20 cfs
From Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDSS), Water Rights Net Amounts + Well Application Permits, 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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