WDID 2500649
Irrigation · Rito Alto Creek · Saguache County, Colorado
Priority date
December 20, 1872
18th most senior of 43 rights on Rito Alto Creek in Saguache 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
- Rito Alto Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Shellabarger Eaton D
- Uses
- Irrigation
- County
- Saguache County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.05624, -105.80437)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 2500649
- Adjudication date
- 1890-03-28
- Administration number
- 8390.00000
- Priority number
- 28
- Court case numbers
- W3803
- Water division / district
- 3 / 25
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Rito Alto Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #14Dec 16, 1872WDID 2500677Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation
- #15Dec 16, 1872WDID 2500649Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation
- #16Dec 20, 1872WDID 2500651Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation3 cfs
- #17Dec 20, 1872WDID 2500677Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation
- #18 · this right
- #19Apr 1, 1873WDID 2500501Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation
- #20Apr 1, 1873WDID 2500582Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation0.8 cfs
- #21May 20, 1873WDID 2500677Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation
- #22May 20, 1873WDID 2500649Rito Alto Creek · Irrigation1 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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