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Agricultural Water Use: Major Diversions

 
 

Collection of information regarding Platte River Basin diversions included photographing selected diversion structures and tabulating Wyoming State Engineer’s Office (SEO) permit information regarding these structures. Major diversions were generally those that are permitted by the SEO to convey 50 cubic feet per second (cfs) or greater flow and were identified by a process including assessing an SEO database of basin diversion information, discussions with SEO hydrographers, and review of the 1999 Tabulation of Adjudicated Surface Water Rights of the State of Wyoming. The advice and assistance of SEO hydrographers, both in the office and in the field, was essential to the successful completion of this work. Some major diversions were not photographed, due either to private property access issues or very remote locations. Click here to view a map of the major diversions that were photographed in the Upper Laramie River subbasin. Following are diversion photographs and accompanying information for the Upper Laramie River subbasin.

Lake Hattie Supply Canal

Structure number

UL-1

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P8612D, P2113E, P6842E

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

Supply canal for Lake Hattie Reservoir

Priority dates

04-21-1908, 07-03-1909, 05-01-1986

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location û Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

SW1/4NE1/4 S36-T14N-R77W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
10-2004

Lake Hattie Supply Canal #2

Structure number

UL-2

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P10363, P6843E

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

Supply canal for Lake Hattie Reservoir

Priority date (original date)

12-5-1910, 5-1-1986

Location – SEO district number

4B

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

SW1/4NE1/4 S2-T15N-R77W

Water source

Little Laramie River

Date of photograph
10-2004

High Line Canal within the Pioneer Canal System

Structure number

UL-3

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P6D, P25D ( Pioneer Canal first and second appropriations)

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

Supply canal

Priority date (original date)

4-19-1879, 10-1-1884

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

SW1/4NE1/4 S36-T14N-R77W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
10-2004

North Canal from Lake Hattie (Canal No.1)

Structure number

UL-4

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P24888D

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

Secondary Supply

Priority date

08-01-1975 (300 acre-feet temporarily restored in Lake Hattie for Twin Buttes Reservoir)

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S26-T15N-R76W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
10-2004

King Ditch

Structure number

UL-5

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P9D, P33D, P1722E, P2304E, P2676E

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

63.9

Priority dates

3-1-1881, 5-31-1886, 12-15-1906, 3-3-1909, 7-29-1912

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S3-T13N-R76W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
09-2004

Caldwell & Gardiner

Structure number

UL-6

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P15D, P30D

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

35.4

Priority dates

4-11-1883, Fall 1885

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S31-T14N-R75W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
9-2004

Riverside No. 2

Structure number

UL-7

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P19D, P22D

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

58.11

Priority dates

06-01-1883,05-01-1884

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S32-T14N-R76W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
9-2004

Dowlin

Structure number

UL-8

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P1D, P63D

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

36.1 (A 14.31 cubic feet per second portion of the P1D 1868 water right is diverted through the Pioneer Canal at Woods Landing by the City of Laramie)

Priority dates

1868, 10-22-1896

Location – SEO district number

4B

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S32-T15N-R74W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
9-2004

Oasis Canal

Structure number

UL-9

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P3D, P10D, P14D, P18D, P34D, P47D, P1353E, P1872E

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

134.71

Priority dates

10-22-1877, 4-30-1881, 04-01-1883, 05-31-1883, 09-22-1886, 06-15-1890, 12-31-1903, 05-06-1908

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S19-T17N-R73W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
9-2004

Bellamy Canal

Structure number

UL-10

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

Territorial, P953E, P1856E, P8385D

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

86.07 + Reservoir Supply

Priority dates

06-22-1886, 10-1887, 03-08-1888, 1888, 11-15-1889, 11-19-1908, 04-09-1908, 04-23-1908

Location – SEO district number

4B

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S3-T15N-R77W

Water source

Little Laramie River

Date of photograph
9-2004

Poverty Flat

Structure number

UL-11

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

Territorial, unknown

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

40.07

Priority dates

04-1876, 04-15-1877, 05-1881, Summer-1881, 06-22-1886, 04-08-1889, 03-1890, 06-11-1923

Location – SEO district number

4B

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S3-T15N-R77W

Water source

Sand Creek Branch Little Laramie River

Date of photograph
9-2004

Pioneer Canal

Structure number

UL-12

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

12 Total Appropriations

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

270.26 + Supply Ditch

Priority dates

1868 – first appropriation

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S36-T14N-R77W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
10-2004

Pioneer Canal from Osterman Lake

Structure number

UL-13

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P4632E, P4127R

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

Secondary Supply

Priority dates

09-22-1928

Location – SEO district number

4A

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S33-T15N-R75W

Water source

Laramie River

Date of photograph
10-2004

Dutton-Laramie Canal

Structure number

UL-14

Wyoming State Engineer’s Office permit number

P22840D, P6199E

Permitted conveyance (cubic feet per second)

Supplemental Supply + Reservoir Supply

Priority dates

04-25-1957, 7-10-1958

Location – SEO district number

4B

Location – SEO district office

Laramie

Location – Qtr/Qtr (if available)/Section/Township/Range

S10-T19N-R76W --

Water source

Dutton Creek

Date of photograph
09-2004
 
 


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