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WIGGINS FARMS RECHARGE W 3 59901-F HGW
Structure dossier · WDID 0109886 · 2 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:07 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 2003-08-01 — 5957th 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: MEADOW SPRINGS RANCH WELL A (1996-08-20). Immediately behind: WIGGINS FARMS RECHARGE W 2 59918-F (2003-08-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58074.56095 | 2003-08-01 | 2009-12-31 | 6.684 | 0.0 | C | AUGRCH |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
18CW3209, 09CW0007.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
18CW3209 | 1 | 2009-12-31 | S |
09CW0007 | 2 | 2009-12-31 | 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 673 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 245 AF — 36% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,524 | 14th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 187 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 2,811 | 15th lowest of 15 · 418% of median | 357 | 6.5 |
| 2012 | 1,265 | 12th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 183 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 416 | 7th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 65 | 7.9 |
| 2014 | 1,322 | 13th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 222 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 912 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 249 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 1,015 | 11th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 145 | 6.3 |
| 2017 | 673 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 87 | 8.6 |
| 2018 | 952 | 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 130 | 4.2 |
| 2019 | 157 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 23 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 126 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 17 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 255 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 41 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 328 | 5th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 49 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 389 | 6th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 124 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 245 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 305 | 1.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-104 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.002).
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
| 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 | 2342 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 71% of the irrigation seasons in 2009-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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