WDID 3000538
Irrigation · Animas River · La Plata County, Colorado
Priority date
May 30, 1876
29th most senior of 465 rights on Animas River in La Plata 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
- Animas River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Elkhorn Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 1.25 cfs (561 gpm)
- County
- La Plata County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 37.43567, -107.78390)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 3000538
- Adjudication date
- 1923-11-08
- Administration number
- 9647.00000
- Priority number
- A-4
- Court case numbers
- CA1751, 98CW0024
- Water division / district
- 7 / 30
- Absolute amount
- 1.25 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Animas River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #25Jan 1, 1876WDID 3000617Animas River · Irrigation
- #26Jan 1, 1876WDID 3000951Animas River · Irrigation0.5 cfs
- #27Jan 1, 1876WDID 3001763Animas River · Irrigation
- #28Jan 1, 1876WDID 3000663Animas River · Irrigation2.25 cfs
- #29 · this right
- #30Aug 28, 1876WDID 3000502Animas River · Irrigation, Stock2.85 cfs
- #31Aug 28, 1876WDID 3000641Animas River · Irrigation8.65 cfs
- #32Apr 6, 1877WDID 3000506Animas River · Storage, Irrigation, Recreation0.42 cfs
- #33Apr 6, 1877WDID 3000539Animas River · Irrigation, Fishery, Domestic0.96 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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