WDID 0400521
Storage · Big Thompson River · Larimer County, Colorado
Priority date
May 10, 1883
279th 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
- Flow rate
- 38.4 cfs (17,235.1 gpm)
- County
- Larimer County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.42136, -105.22492)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 0400521
- Adjudication date
- 1939-11-14
- Administration number
- 29675.12183
- Court case numbers
- CA10077
- Water division / district
- 1 / 4
- Absolute amount
- 38.4 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.
- #275Dec 1, 1882WDID 0404145Big Thompson River · Municipal179.2 AF
- #276Dec 1, 1882WDID 0400521Big Thompson River · Storage9 cfs
- #277Feb 24, 1883WDID 0404116Big Thompson River · Irrigation1,147.8 AF
- #278Feb 24, 1883WDID 0400530Big Thompson River · Storage194.3 cfs
- #279 · this right
- #280Sep 17, 1883WDID 0400503Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #281Sep 17, 1883WDID 0400540Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #282Sep 17, 1883WDID 0400519Big Thompson River · Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial
- #283Sep 17, 1883WDID 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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