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QUINT RECHARGE WELL 59271-F

Structure dossier · WDID 0109882 · WELL · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record

Quint Recharge Well 59271-F is a well on South Platte River in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-17 03:41 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Well permits on file (2)

DWR ties these well permits to WDID 0109882. A permit is the authorization to construct and use the well — not a water right, and separate from the decrees on this page (three things called “well”).

PermitUse StatusDepthStatic level YieldCompleted
59271-F Augmentation, Recharge Permit Canceled 64 ft — 3000.0 gpm 2003-09-15
83704-F Augmentation, Recharge Well Constructed 64 ft 11 ft 3000.0 gpm 2003-09-15

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Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (well). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at PREWITT INLET CANAL (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1936-01-13).

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 2003-01-07 — 4776th most senior of the 7708 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: SCHULTZ SEEP DITCH (1987-04-30). Immediately behind: LOWER P & B TUCK RCHRG A (2003-01-08).

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
55889.00000 2003-01-072003-12-31 0.0 AF 1500.0 AF — Recharge 03CW0370
55889.00000 2003-01-072003-12-31 0.0 cfs 6.77 cfs — Recharge 03CW0370

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,237 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,003 AF — 81% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 1,563 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 164 12.7
2012 1,460 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 134 8.5
2013 1,698 14th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 149 11.3
2014 840 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 71 6.9
2015 132 1st lowest of 15 · 11% of median 12 6.8
2016 733 2nd lowest of 15 · 59% of median 59 6.8
2017 1,237 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 113 8.6
2018 1,667 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 172 5.6
2019 1,180 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 105 6.8
2020 999 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 92 5.9
2021 1,537 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 141 9.2
2022 910 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 81 6.1
2023 2,292 15th lowest of 15 · 185% of median 206 6.8
2024 1,437 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 134 6.2
2025 1,003 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 99 5.9

How good is our record of it?

Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights on file 2 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record present 2160 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity patchy 56% of the irrigation seasons in 2007-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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