PARK County

T9.0S R74.0W Sec 36

One surveyed section, about a square mile CO060090S0740W0SN360 Free summary

This is a 379.0-acre parcel in Park County. No well permit in the record states an address on it, which is the usual case and is not the same as there being no well. The square mile around it holds 34 water rights of record and 2 well permits, which is the grain Colorado files water at. 29 of the rights irrigate at more than household scale. The most serious thing in the record is that 2 of 34 rights are administered far more junior than they look, and 2 other findings change the deal.

What this square mile holds

The record, before anything is made of it. Every number here is a count of documents the state publishes, not an assessment.

Water rights

Of record
34
Absolute
5water that exists
Conditional only
0a placeholder
Oldest
1874appropriation

Wells

Permitted
2
Actually drilled
2
Median depth
83feet

Storage & structures

Storage rights
31
Absolute storage
26,269.8acre-feet
Structures
7
Defunct
1no longer exist

The ground

Elevation
8,934feet
Wildfire
low
Flood
in special flood hazard area
Irrigated
0mapped acres

Where this water sits in the queue

187018901910193019501970

Click a decade to see what was decreed in it.

first put to use what a listing quotes decreed absolute what the state administers on decreed conditional not yet real water

The median right here was first used in 1881 and decreed in 1889. 15 rights waited a decade or more between the two, which puts them further down the queue than the appropriation date suggests. Which right is which is in the full report.

What the record says

Changes the deal 3

  • 2 of 34 rights are administered far more junior than they look Our reading
  • Decreed for irrigation, but nothing here is mapped as irrigated Our reading
  • Part of this section is in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area In the record

Worth knowing 8

  • 29 of 34 rights here are covered by an augmentation plan In the record
  • 26 storage rights here are decreed as a rate, not a volume In the record
  • Owner of record: STATE OF COLORADO DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES In the record
  • DWR's contact of record for the water In the record
  • This ground needs roughly 3.5 acre feet an acre delivered Our reading
  • US Forest Service land is 0 miles away In the record
  • The United States holds no minerals under this ground In the record
  • Short growing season: about 53 days Our reading

Nothing wrong here 6

  • 31 storage rights of record in this section In the record
  • 6 wells have actually been drilled nearby In the record
  • 44.7 acres of this parcel are mapped as irrigated In the record
  • The water table nearby has held steady since 2005 Our reading
  • The nearest gauged stream has run every year for 20 years Our reading
  • Tarryall Creek runs year round, 0.56 miles away In the record

Behind these: 34 water rights, 2 well permits, 7 structures and 0 water court filings of record.

The full report

Each of the 11 findings above, with what it means and the record behind it.

  • Why each finding matters, and what it means for the deal
  • Every water right of record, with its priority date and decree
  • Every well permit, with depth, aquifer and permitted use
  • What actually came through the headgate, year by year
  • The documents to ask for, with the case number and a link to each
  • The complete record as a separate appendix
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Where this comes from

  • Bureau of Land Management
  • Bureau of Land Management (CadNSDI)
  • Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office
  • Bureau of Land Management, PLSS CadNSDI
  • Colorado Division of Water Resources
  • Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDSS)
  • Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission
  • Colorado Governors Office of Information Technology
  • Colorado Judicial Branch, Water Courts
  • FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer
  • Fremont County Assessor GIS, and Chaffee County published by the City of Salida
  • US Geological Survey, National Hydrography Dataset
  • USDA NRCS Soil Data Access (SSURGO)