WDID 6800523
Irrigation, Commercial, Domestic · Cow Creek · Ouray County, Colorado
Priority date
March 10, 1881
5th most senior of 193 rights on Cow Creek in Ouray 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
- Cow Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Chaffee Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation, Commercial, Domestic
- Flow rate
- 1.68 cfs (755.8 gpm)
- County
- Ouray County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.24445, -107.75005)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 6800523
- Adjudication date
- 1897-05-15
- Administration number
- 11392.00000
- Priority number
- 45
- Court case numbers
- W2937, CA0939, 80CW0266, 80CW0188
- Water division / district
- 4 / 68
- Absolute amount
- 1.684 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Cow Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Mar 1, 1881WDID 6800673Cow Creek · Irrigation2.25 cfs
- #2Mar 1, 1881WDID 6800673Cow Creek · Irrigation3 cfs
- #3Mar 1, 1881WDID 6801388Cow Creek · Irrigation
- #4Mar 1, 1881WDID 6801388Cow Creek · Irrigation
- #5 · this right
- #6Mar 10, 1881WDID 6800523Cow Creek · Irrigation3.25 cfs
- #7Oct 15, 1881WDID 6800738Cow Creek · Irrigation21 cfs
- #8Apr 30, 1882WDID 6800701Cow Creek · Irrigation2.5 cfs
- #9May 1, 1882WDID 6800502Cow Creek · Irrigation0.75 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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