WDID 1000559
Irrigation · Little Fountain Creek · El Paso County, Colorado
Priority date
April 1, 1870
2nd most senior of 15 rights on Little Fountain Creek in El Paso 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
- Little Fountain Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Ripley Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5 cfs (2,244.2 gpm)
- County
- El Paso County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.68024, -104.85160)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 1000559
- Adjudication date
- 1883-04-12
- Administration number
- 7396.00000
- Court case numbers
- CA0751
- Water division / district
- 2 / 10
- Absolute amount
- 5 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Little Fountain Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Dec 31, 1866WDID 1000709Little Fountain Creek · Irrigation4.5 cfs
- #2 · this right
- #3Jun 1, 1871WDID 1000562Little Fountain Creek · Irrigation8 cfs
- #4Apr 1, 1872WDID 1000564Little Fountain Creek · Domestic, Stock0.2 cfs
- #5Jun 16, 1885WDID 1000565Little Fountain Creek · Irrigation12.66 cfs
- #6Nov 1, 1887WDID 1003636Little Fountain Creek · Irrigation7.09 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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