The Water Supply And Storage Company

Town
Fort Collins
Basin
South Platte
Organized
1891
Colorado SOS entity ID
19871012392
Water source
Cache La Poudre River
Earliest decreed right
1861 per Colorado DWR records

Sources: Colorado Secretary of State business records as of August 3, 2026 (standing, registered agent, formation date, entity ID), and Colorado Department of Water Resources net-amount records as of August 11, 2026 for the water source and earliest decreed right, including rights recorded only as alternate-point/exchange (APEX) amounts (each links to the state's own record). Compiled by DitchBook from public records, not edited by the company — how this page is built and what it can't tell you.

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Contact
Company office
Phone
970-482-3433
Mailing address
PO Box 1584, Fort Collins, CO 80522

This contact appears in an official public directory dated 2021, so confirm it before relying on it. Source checked August 15, 2026; source listing: Water Supply and Storage Company; sources: Larimer County irrigation ditch companies directory. The company has not claimed or edited this page.

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Verified public water record

28 water structures

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DWR structures DitchBook has verified for The Water Supply And Storage Company
StructureWDIDType and sourceDWR locationMap
Central Lateral 0100675 Ditch
Owl Creek
Weld County · Division 1 · District 1 View on map
Larimer County Ditch 0300911 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 7c 0301315 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 7b 0301316 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 7a 0301317 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 7 0301318 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 8 0301331 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 9 0301332 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply Seep 10 0301333 Ditch
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Trap Lake Ii 0303501 Reservoir
Trap Creek
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Long Draw Reservoir
Reservoir outline
0303676 Reservoir
La Poudre Pass Creek
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Chambers Lake Res
Reservoir outline
0303679 Reservoir
Joe Wright Creek
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Curtis Lake Res
Reservoir outline
0303735 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply & Storage Res 1 0303736 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply & Storage Res 2&3 0303737 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply & Storage Res 4
Reservoir outline
0303739 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Kluver Res
Reservoir outline
0303740 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply & Storage Res 6 0303741 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Water Supply & Storage Res 5 0303742 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Lindenmeier Lake
Reservoir outline
0303743 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Black Hollow Res
Reservoir outline
0303744 Reservoir
Cache La Poudre River
Weld County · Division 1 · District 3 View on map
Cameron Pass Ditch 4704602 Ditch
Michigan River
Jackson County · Division 6 · District 47 View on map
Rawah Lower Supply Ditch 4800500 Ditch
Laramie River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 48 View on map
Laramie River Tunnel Sys 4800576 Ditch
Laramie River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 48 View on map
Laramie River Ditch 4800577 Ditch
West Branch Laramie River
Larimer County · Division 1 · District 48 View on map
Grand River Ditch North Feeder 5101212 Ditch
Colorado River
Grand County · Division 5 · District 51 View on map
Grand River Ditch South Feeder 5101213 Ditch
Specimen Creek
Grand County · Division 5 · District 51 View on map
Grand River Ditch 5104601 Ditch
Colorado River
Grand County · Division 5 · District 51 View on map

Published from DitchBook's verified company-to-WDID crosswalk as of August 20, 2026, using Colorado DWR structure records pulled August 11, 2026. Open a structure for its source fields, exact map status, company association, and official water-right citation. This table does not say that any particular parcel is served by, owns shares in, or is crossed by the structure.

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Reservoir pool

  • Reservoir pool (USGS NHD, name-matched)

This company's verified reservoir pool lies in Weld;larimer;jackson;grand County, on Cache La Poudre River. Irrigated parcels are not linked for this company, so no footprint is shown.

The shaded pool is the water body this company's reservoir structure impounds, as mapped in the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), name-matched to the DWR structure record and reviewed by DitchBook — mapping-grade, not a survey. The state's WDID is the control point — the dam or outlet, marked by the pin — not the water. A published match says DWR names this company for that structure; it does not say who owns the water body or the land beneath it. Shown for 7 of 12 reviewed structures. This company has no state-mapped irrigated-parcel footprint on file, so none is shown here. Satellite imagery is available via the map's Satellite/Map toggle, courtesy of USDA/USGS (The National Map), public domain. Boundaries are the state's, drawn to locate the land, not to settle it. How this page is built.

Company-wide share count

600 shares of capital stock — as stated in City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Co., 926 P.2d 1 (Colo. 1996)

cited from the source document — high

“Thornton purchased 283.354 of the 600 issued and outstanding shares in the Water Supply and Storage Company (WSSC).”

A statement from the cited record; the company's current share structure may differ. DitchBook does not compute per-share values from these records. How this page is built.

Sources for this profile

  • Share count — City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Co., 926 P.2d 1 (Colo. 1996) (1996)

Assembled from Colorado DWR/CDSS public datasets. Informational; accuracy not guaranteed. Not a determination of historical consumptive use and not recommended as a primary source in Colorado Water Court, where quantification requires a licensed engineering analysis.

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Water court activity

  • 2026CW3083 (Water Division 1, May 2026 resume watch) — THE WATER SUPPLY AND STORAGE COMPANY, P.O. Box · court's resume
    “…CASE NUMBER 2026CW3083 THE WATER SUPPLY AND STORAGE COMPANY, P.O. Box 2017, Fort Collins, CO 80522-2017, Attn: Eric Wes…”

These mentions come from automated name-matching of Colorado's seven water courts' monthly résumés against the census: the automated matcher found the company's name in the filing's raw text under strict rules: every word of the registered name, in order, with only spaces or commas between them — matching is case-insensitive, treats “&” and “and” as the same, treats punctuation inside the registered name (hyphens, apostrophes, periods) as word breaks, and ignores a leading “The” — never a fuzzy match. When the registered name ends in a legal-form word, that word is required too (“Park Ditch Company” requires the word “Company”; a bare “Park Ditch” mention can never trigger it) — with one abbreviation family: where the name ends in “Association” or “Assn”, the filing may use any of “Association”, “Assn”, or “Assoc”. Beyond that, the matcher's remaining guards only ever remove listings, never add them. Methodology: how the résumé matching works. A mention is a fact about the filing's text, not a judgment about how the case affects the company — see the full resume watch for what's been found, and water court records in the land-buyer guide for what a filing can mean and the statutory response window. Confirm with the company's officers and the court record before relying on this list.

Public notice activity

  • Lost certificate
    — A 2026 public notice reported a demand for a duplicate or replacement share certificate. Fort Collins Coloradoan, Public Notice Colorado record 215073

    This dated notice is evidence that a replacement demand was published, not proof of current ownership, share validity or value, transfer completion, or the company's present status.

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DitchBook is not affiliated with The Water Supply And Storage Company. This page is a public-record profile compiled from Colorado Secretary of State and public water-district data.

A mutual ditch or reservoir company is a nonprofit corporation formed under Colorado law — most commonly C.R.S. Title 7, Article 42 — so that landowners who share an irrigation ditch, canal, or reservoir can jointly own and operate it. Instead of the water right belonging to a single person, shares in the company represent each owner's proportional claim, and the company's board and secretary keep the ledger, run assessments for maintenance, and issue certificates the way any small corporation would. Many of these companies have operated continuously since the 1880s, run entirely by volunteer officers who inherit the books from whoever kept them before.

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