PARK County

T12.0S R74.0W Sec 25

One surveyed section, about a square mile CO060120S0740W0SN250 Free summary

This is a 5,040.0-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 67 water rights of record and 4 well permits, which is the grain Colorado files water at. 60 of the rights irrigate at more than household scale. The most serious thing in the record is that 7 of 67 rights are administered far more junior than they look, and 5 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
67
Absolute
2water that exists
Conditional only
3a placeholder
Oldest
1867appropriation

Wells

Permitted
4
Actually drilled
3
Median depth
18feet
Median yield
1gallons a minute

Storage & structures

Storage rights
67
Absolute storage
52,847acre-feet
Structures
3
Defunct
1no longer exist

The ground

Elevation
8,746feet
Wildfire
low
Flood
in special flood hazard area
Irrigated
0mapped acres

Where this water sits in the queue

18601880190019201940196019802000

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 1880 and decreed in 1889. 35 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 6

  • 7 of 67 rights are administered far more junior than they look Our reading
  • The court has abandoned or canceled part of 1 right here In the record
  • 3 rights on record are conditional only In the record
  • Decreed for irrigation, but nothing here is mapped as irrigated Our reading
  • Wells here are weak: median 1 gpm across 3 completed wells Our reading
  • Part of this section is in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area In the record

Worth knowing 10

  • 3 rights here remain conditional on the decree record In the record
  • 65 of 67 rights here are covered by an augmentation plan In the record
  • 58 storage rights here are decreed as a rate, not a volume In the record
  • None of this 5,040.0-acre parcel is mapped as irrigated In the record
  • Owner of record: CITY OF AURORA 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
  • 1 water court filing on record for this section In the record
  • Bureau of Land Management land is 0.85 miles away In the record
  • The United States holds no minerals under this ground In the record

Nothing wrong here 5

  • 67 storage rights of record in this section In the record
  • 11 wells have actually been drilled nearby 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
  • South Platte River runs year round, 0.41 miles away In the record

Behind these: 67 water rights, 4 well permits, 3 structures and 1 water court filings of record.

The full report

Each of the 16 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)