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BIJOU MILLIRON DRAW RCHG A
Structure dossier · WDID 0102035 · RA · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:44 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 1981-12-17 — 3845th 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: LAUGEN WELL 123461 (1981-11-25). Immediately behind: BIJOU KIOWA CR RCHRG A (1981-12-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48198.0 | 1981-12-17 | 1981-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUGRCH | |
| 48278.0 | 1982-03-07 | 1981-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUGRCH |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
93CW0024, 81CW0382.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
93CW0024 | 2 | 1981-12-31 | S |
81CW0382 | 2 | 1981-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 267 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 237 AF — 89% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 283 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | — | 46 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 289 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | — | 84 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 267 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 51 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 47 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | — | 11 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 74 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | — | 29 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 497 | 15th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | — | 135 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 255 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 94 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 269 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | — | 71 | 4.1 |
| 2018 | 364 | 12th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | — | 86 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 450 | 14th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | — | 99 | 8.1 |
| 2020 | 167 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | — | 38 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 192 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 69 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 94 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | — | 26 | 7.9 |
| 2023 | 377 | 13th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | — | 128 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 237 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 82 | 5.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1526 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 17% of the irrigation seasons in 1983-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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