WDID 0400502
Irrigation, Augmentation, Recharge · Big Thompson River · Weld County, Colorado
Priority date
November 18, 1865
1st most senior of 47 rights on Big Thompson River in Weld 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
- Surface water
- Name
- Big T Platte R Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation, Augmentation, Recharge
- Flow rate
- 35 cfs (15,709.1 gpm)
- County
- Weld County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.34613, -104.89132)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 0400502
- Adjudication date
- 1883-05-28
- Administration number
- 5801.00000
- Court case numbers
- 05CW0053, 05/28/1883
- Water division / district
- 1 / 4
- Absolute amount
- 35 cfs
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.
- #1 · this right
- #2Apr 20, 1871WDID 0400517Big Thompson River · Irrigation29.28 cfs
- #3May 15, 1876WDID 0400502Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Augmentation, Recharge60 cfs
- #4Dec 31, 1880WDID 0400783Big Thompson River · Irrigation7 cfs
- #5Nov 20, 1882WDID 0404125Big Thompson River · Irrigation294 AF
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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