WDID 6800568
Irrigation · McKenzie Creek · Ouray County, Colorado
Priority date
March 11, 1910
18th most senior of 44 rights on McKenzie 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
- McKenzie Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Elephant Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5 cfs (2,244.2 gpm)
- County
- Ouray County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.19547, -107.85239)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 6800568
- Adjudication date
- 1920-02-26
- Administration number
- 24444.21984
- Priority number
- 11
- Court case numbers
- CA1581
- Water division / district
- 4 / 68
- Absolute amount
- 5 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on McKenzie Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #14May 1, 1907WDID 6803766McKenzie Creek · Recreation, Stock, Wildlife0.07 AF
- #15Jun 1, 1909WDID 6800560McKenzie Creek · Irrigation, Augmentation
- #16Jun 1, 1909WDID 6800767McKenzie Creek · Irrigation8 cfs
- #17Aug 2, 1909WDID 6800987McKenzie Creek · Stock0.05 cfs
- #18 · this right
- #19Aug 16, 1910WDID 6800581McKenzie Creek · Irrigation4 cfs
- #20May 5, 1911WDID 6800756McKenzie Creek · Irrigation9 cfs
- #21Jun 20, 1912WDID 6800756McKenzie Creek · Irrigation4 cfs
- #22Apr 10, 1917WDID 6800793McKenzie Creek · Irrigation2 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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