WDID 0404146
Storage, Irrigation, Municipal · Big Thompson River · Larimer County, Colorado
Priority date
November 25, 1888
311th 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
- 688.5 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
- 24286.14209
- Court case numbers
- 14CW3016, 00CW0110, 01CW0182, W7439, CA9079
- Water division / district
- 1 / 4
- Absolute amount
- 688.52 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.
- #307Feb 18, 1887WDID 0400532Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #308Dec 31, 1887WDID 0401505Big Thompson River · Domestic0.001 cfs
- #309Aug 1, 1888WDID 0400520Big Thompson River · Storage195 cfs
- #310Aug 1, 1888WDID 0404134Big Thompson River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal5,570.7 AF
- #311 · this right
- #312Nov 25, 1888WDID 0400521Big Thompson River · Storage125 cfs
- #313Nov 25, 1888WDID 0400530Big Thompson River · Storage63 cfs
- #314Dec 31, 1888WDID 0400633Big Thompson River · Irrigation1.06 cfs
- #315Jan 15, 1890WDID 0401512Big Thompson River · Domestic, Stock0.007 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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