WDID 0400521
Irrigation · Big Thompson River · Larimer County, Colorado
Priority date
October 15, 1877
215th 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
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 198 cfs (88,868.3 gpm)
- County
- Larimer County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.42136, -105.22492)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 0400521
- Adjudication date
- 1892-03-18
- Administration number
- 12201.10150
- Court case numbers
- 03/18/1892
- Water division / district
- 1 / 4
- Absolute amount
- 198 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.
- #211May 5, 1876WDID 0401426Big Thompson River · Commercial, Fire, Domestic0.08 cfs
- #212May 5, 1876WDID 0401426Big Thompson River · Commercial, Fire, Domestic18.28 AF
- #213May 5, 1876WDID 0402400Big Thompson River · Fishery, Wildlife0.32 cfs
- #214May 5, 1876WDID 0402400Big Thompson River · Fishery, Wildlife97.13 AF
- #215 · this right
- #216Nov 1, 1877WDID 0400503Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #217Nov 1, 1877WDID 0400540Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #218Nov 1, 1877WDID 0400519Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #219Nov 1, 1877WDID 0400520Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
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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