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NEW CACHE OWL CREEK DIVERSION
Structure dossier · WDID 0100873 · 1 · OWL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1902-12-31 — 3725th most senior of the 7705 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: N SIDE LTL WILLOW C PTDV (1902-12-31). Immediately behind: AGATE RESERVOIR (1905-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47116.19357 | 1902-12-31 | 1979-12-31 | 14.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 55412.0 | 2001-09-17 | 2001-12-31 | 0.59 | 13.41 | C | IRRCOMINDRECFISAUGRCHWLD |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 195 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 197 AF — 101% of that, and 5th lowest of the 8 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 41 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 21% of median | 7 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 210 | 6th lowest of 8 · 108% of median | 71 | 5.8 |
| 2018 | 193 | 4th lowest of 8 · 99% of median | 137 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 404 | 7th lowest of 8 · 207% of median | 261 | 9.0 |
| 2020 | 508 | 8th lowest of 8 · 260% of median | 245 | 9.5 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 1% of median | 13 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 197 | 5th lowest of 8 · 101% of median | 61 | 8.8 |
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