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WESTERN SUGAR W 2-59300
Structure dossier · WDID 0109875 · 2 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:26 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 in line
Priority 2003-12-31 — 4879th 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: WESTERN SUGAR W 3-61263-F (2003-12-31). Immediately behind: WESTERN SUGAR W 1- 61262 (2003-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56247.0 | 2003-12-31 | 2003-12-31 | 6.62 | 0.04 | C | COMIND |
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 141 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 135 AF — 96% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 141 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 36 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 52 | 1st lowest of 7 · 37% of median | 8 | 3.8 |
| 2012 | 531 | 6th lowest of 7 · 377% of median | 29 | 13.1 |
| 2015 | 754 | 7th lowest of 7 · 535% of median | 58 | 14.8 |
| 2016 | 177 | 5th lowest of 7 · 126% of median | 23 | 10.9 |
| 2017 | 98 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 70% of median | 43 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 135 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 96% of median | 42 | 6.0 |
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