SEELEY LAKE RES ☆ My Water

Who owns it

• Ogilvy Irr. & Land CO. (private) — as reported to the National Inventory of Dams (USACE) ↗.

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.

The record and the river

In short

SEELEY LAKE RES holds 2 decreed rights on CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER. A call at CANAL 3 DITCH on CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER (1870-04-01), and 2 others currently reaches it: fully called out. 2 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. That is today's position; the weeks ahead cannot be projected for it: no administrative call record for this basin. In a median year over its last 13 recorded years it diverts 292 acre-feet. It was a party to 1 court cases that also touched 1 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (9 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Dam safety

Source: DWR Dam Safety’s jurisdictional-dam inventory (damsafety/damsafetydaminfojd), refreshed weekly. Joined on this structure’s own WDID as DWR records it on the dam. Hazard class describes the consequence of failure, not the likelihood of it. DWR’s dam record.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).

● Fully called out — call at OGILVY DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1884-04-10).

● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1866-03-01).

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no administrative call record for this basin. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1902-06-12 — 248th most senior of the 2964 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..

Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: HIGLEY RES 2 (1899-04-13)☆. Immediately behind: BELLAIRES LAKE RES (1904-07-29)☆.

On MAINSTEM at river mile 153.2, it is 746th of 818 down the reach. Immediately upstream: EAST AULT FRACK PUMP☆. Immediately downstream: ACWWA KEIRNES RTN POINT IMPACT POINT☆.

Position on the modelled network, not a claim about whose water this is — a stream carries water from many rights at once, and diverted water returns to it.

Decreed rights (2)

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Legal record & documents

2 decreed actions on record across 2 court cases: 18CW3009, CA2031.

193 imaged documents on DWR’s shelf for this structure — 46 water-court documents across 3 cases, including 3 decrees. Every row opens the scanned PDF at DWR. Listing as of 2026-09-27.

Imaged documents at DWR. DWR keeps the scanned documents for this structure — decrees, rulings, plats, correspondence — in its Laserfiche archive. Open the list directly: imaged documents for 0303772 ↗ (indexed by structure, not by case — the cases listed above appear within the list).

Other DWR records for this structure: DWR’s page for this structure ↗ — net amounts, water rights, transactions & adjudication history, and diversion records, all on that one page. On this site: the district’s full legal picture →

Structures it shares court cases with

This structure was a party to 1 court case that also touched 1 other structure — changes of water right, augmentation plans, exchanges. Being parties to the same case does not by itself mean water moved between them; which way it ran, and how much, is in the decree.

Also a party to 1 omnibus adjudication (CA2031, 143 structures). Those settled many rights at once and are listed separately: they say these structures were adjudicated together, not that they deal with each other.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 292 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 91 AF — 31% of that, and 4th lowest of the 13 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

Trends for this structure

Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.

Its reference gage, Cache La Poudre River at Greeley Wastewater Plant: no clear flow trend.

Every gage and reach in this district →

How good is our record of it?

Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.