WDID 0400521
Storage, Irrigation, Municipal · Big Thompson River · Larimer County, Colorado
Priority date
December 15, 1880
260th 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
- Surface water
- Name
- Handy Ditch
- Uses
- Storage, Irrigation, Municipal, Fishery, Augmentation, Cumulative accretion to river, Wildlife
- Flow rate
- 141.1 cfs (63,319.6 gpm)
- County
- Larimer County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.42136, -105.22492)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 0400521
- Adjudication date
- 1883-05-28
- Administration number
- 11307.00000
- Court case numbers
- 14CW3016, 00CW0110, 01CW0182, 99CW0110, W7439, 05/28/1883
- Water division / district
- 1 / 4
- Absolute amount
- 141.077 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.
- #256Nov 7, 1880WDID 0400530Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #257Nov 7, 1880WDID 0400501Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #258Nov 7, 1880WDID 0400532Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #259Dec 15, 1880WDID 0402900Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Commercial, Domestic0.16 cfs
- #260 · this right
- #261Feb 1, 1881WDID 0400524Big Thompson River · Storage321 cfs
- #262Feb 1, 1881WDID 0404137Big Thompson River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal9,183 AF
- #263Mar 15, 1881WDID 0400524Big Thompson River · Irrigation286.5 cfs
- #264Apr 1, 1881WDID 0400532Big Thompson River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal297.4 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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