WDID 5800640
Irrigation, Domestic · Big Creek · Routt County, Colorado
Priority date
September 1, 1901
1st most senior of 59 rights on Big Creek in Routt 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
- Big Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- First Chance Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation, Domestic
- Flow rate
- 5 cfs (2,244.2 gpm)
- County
- Routt County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.66774, -106.85853)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 5800640
- Adjudication date
- 1903-09-21
- Administration number
- 19253.18871
- Priority number
- 160-A
- Court case numbers
- 09/21/1903
- Water division / district
- 6 / 58
- Absolute amount
- 5 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Nov 15, 1902WDID 5800537Big Creek · Irrigation, Domestic2.33 cfs
- #3Mar 1, 1905WDID 5801313Big Creek · Federal reserved0.006 cfs
- #4Jun 12, 1905WDID 5801928Big Creek · Federal reserved0.006 cfs
- #5Jun 12, 1905WDID 5802617Big Creek · Federal reserved0.006 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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