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PAWNEE RAW WTR RES 1
Structure dossier · WDID 0103871 · 3 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:48 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 1977-06-02 — 3853rd 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: KAUFFMAN DIV STRUCTURE 1 (1969-08-01). Immediately behind: PAWNEE RAW WTR RES 2 (1979-04-13).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48212.46539 | 1977-06-02 | 1982-12-31 | 5734.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKOTH |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
88CW0148, 82CW0307, 01CW0187.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
88CW0148 | 1 | 1982-12-31 | S |
82CW0307 | 3 | 1982-12-31 | S |
01CW0187 | 1 | 1982-12-31 | 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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,501 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 7,060 AF — 128% of that, and 10th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 872 | 1st lowest of 14 · 16% of median | 731 | 60 | 10.7 |
| 2012 | 5,151 | 6th lowest of 14 · 94% of median | 4,509 | 359 | 21.6 |
| 2013 | 4,253 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 77% of median | 4,223 | 335 | 22.3 |
| 2014 | 4,230 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 77% of median | 3,782 | 309 | 19.0 |
| 2015 | 5,323 | 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median | 5,183 | 321 | 18.3 |
| 2016 | 4,952 | 5th lowest of 14 · 90% of median | 4,468 | 259 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 6,062 | 9th lowest of 14 · 110% of median | 5,541 | 342 | 18.8 |
| 2018 | 5,679 | 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 5,206 | 356 | 17.1 |
| 2019 | 4,643 | 4th lowest of 14 · 84% of median | 3,995 | 311 | 16.9 |
| 2020 | 8,361 | 11th lowest of 14 · 152% of median | 5,685 | 358 | 41.4 |
| 2021 | 15,498 | 14th lowest of 14 · 282% of median | 9,611 | 365 | 40.5 |
| 2022 | 9,555 | 12th lowest of 14 · 174% of median | 3,836 | 337 | 28.2 |
| 2023 | 10,124 | 13th lowest of 14 · 184% of median | 8,466 | 364 | 32.6 |
| 2024 | 7,060 | 10th lowest of 14 · 128% of median | 0 | 305 | 23.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 14 recorded years (+587 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.002).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 4381 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2011-2024 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.