WDID 3000518
Irrigation, Commercial, Recreation · Elbert Creek · La Plata County, Colorado
Priority date
April 23, 1897
19th most senior of 144 rights on Elbert Creek 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
- Elbert Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Butler Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation, Commercial, Recreation, Fishery, Fire, Domestic, Augmentation, Household use only
- Flow rate
- 1 cfs (447.6 gpm)
- County
- La Plata County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 37.59286, -107.82899)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 3000518
- Adjudication date
- 1923-11-08
- Administration number
- 17280.00000
- Priority number
- E-8
- Court case numbers
- 93CW0027, 85CW0023, W1471, CA1751
- Water division / district
- 7 / 30
- Absolute amount
- 0.9972 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Elbert Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #15Sep 1, 1893WDID 3000548Elbert Creek · Irrigation, Fishery, Fire1 cfs
- #16Mar 1, 1895WDID 3000522Elbert Creek · Irrigation0.5 cfs
- #17Dec 31, 1895WDID 3000685Elbert Creek · Irrigation
- #18Dec 31, 1895WDID 3000626Elbert Creek · Irrigation0.67 cfs
- #19 · this right
- #20Apr 24, 1897WDID 3000590Elbert Creek · Irrigation0.33 cfs
- #21Apr 25, 1897WDID 3000519Elbert Creek · Irrigation, Commercial, Domestic0.5 cfs
- #22Dec 31, 1900WDID 3000512Elbert Creek · Irrigation, Domestic, Stock0.02 cfs
- #23Dec 31, 1900WDID 3000524Elbert Creek · Irrigation, Domestic, Stock1 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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