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RIVERSIDE/EQUUS POND 1
Structure dossier · WDID 0102049 · RA · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:07 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 1988-03-03 — 3976th 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: RIVERSIDE/EQUUS POND 3 (1988-03-03). Immediately behind: RIVERSIDE/EQUUS POND 2 (1988-03-03).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50466.0 | 1988-03-03 | 1988-12-31 | 570.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECRCHWLD |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
97CW0088, 88CW0239, 11CW0058.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
97CW0088 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | S |
88CW0239 | 2 | 1988-12-31 | S |
11CW0058 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | 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 4,358 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,736 AF — 40% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6,966 | 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 126 | 53.0 |
| 2010 | 5,107 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 101 | 46.4 |
| 2011 | 4,567 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 120 | 54.4 |
| 2012 | 1,359 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 41 | 33.1 |
| 2013 | 2,818 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 63 | 64.4 |
| 2014 | 8,338 | 15th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 156 | 47.7 |
| 2015 | 5,987 | 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 180 | 32.2 |
| 2016 | 2,895 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 90 | 34.3 |
| 2017 | 6,350 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 131 | 48.2 |
| 2018 | 4,358 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 113 | 36.0 |
| 2019 | 6,253 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 132 | 55.0 |
| 2020 | 2,076 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 36 | 40.2 |
| 2021 | 2,489 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 59 | 39.1 |
| 2023 | 3,216 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 77 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 1,736 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 42 | 43.7 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2086 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 28% of the irrigation seasons in 1989-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.