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WESTERN SUGAR W 1- 61262
Structure dossier · WDID 0110067 · 2 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:12 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 2003-12-31 — 4880th 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 2-59300 (2003-12-31). Immediately behind: UNITED DIVERSION FACILITY 2 WELL 1 (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 | 6.0 | 1.77 | C | COMIND |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
03CW0453.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0453 | 2 | 2003-12-31 | 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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 241 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, came in at 10 AF — 4% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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 | 226 | 5th lowest of 11 · 94% of median | 61 | 2.3 |
| 2011 | 261 | 8th lowest of 11 · 108% of median | 90 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 705 | 11th lowest of 11 · 292% of median | 107 | 36.0 |
| 2013 | 553 | 10th lowest of 11 · 230% of median | 183 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 250 | 7th lowest of 11 · 104% of median | 110 | 10.3 |
| 2015 | 53 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 22% of median | 43 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 440 | 9th lowest of 11 · 183% of median | 108 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 241 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 98 | 10.4 |
| 2018 | 22 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 9% of median | 108 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 68 | 4th lowest of 11 · 28% of median | 199 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 10 | 1st lowest of 11 · 4% of median | 157 | 0.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 11 recorded years (-36 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.043).
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 | 1264 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 59% of the irrigation seasons in 2010-2020 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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