WDID 1700558
Irrigation, Municipal, Industrial · Arkansas River · Otero County, Colorado
Priority date
May 15, 1874
1st most senior of 95 rights on Arkansas River in Otero 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
- Arkansas River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Rocky Ford Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation, Municipal, Industrial, Recreation, Fishery, Domestic, Augmentation, All beneficial uses
- Flow rate
- 111.8 cfs (50,161.2 gpm)
- County
- Otero County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.11206, -103.82619)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 1700558
- Adjudication date
- 1905-04-08
- Administration number
- 8901.00000
- Priority number
- 1
- Court case numbers
- 99CW0169A, 06CW0049, 04/08/1905
- Water division / district
- 2 / 17
- Absolute amount
- 111.76 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Arkansas River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Apr 10, 1875WDID 1700552Arkansas River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal22 cfs
- #3Apr 15, 1884WDID 1700553Arkansas River · Irrigation, Commercial, Stock164.6 cfs
- #4Dec 3, 1884WDID 1700552Arkansas River · Storage, Irrigation, Municipal226 cfs
- #5Mar 1, 1887WDID 1700553Arkansas River · Irrigation, Commercial, Stock597.2 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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