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UNION D MILLER RECHARGE AREA

Structure dossier · WDID 0202004 · RECHARGE AREA · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at LITTLETON BOAT CHUTE NO 10 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1994-12-02).

● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).

● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).

● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).

● Fully called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).

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 2003-12-19 — 15042nd most senior of the 21881 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: 0203380 (2003-12-08). Immediately behind: 0209997 (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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
56235.02003-12-192003-12-31 254.02245.98 AAUGRCH

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 106 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 21 AF — 20% of that, and 1st lowest of the 14 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)
2010 238 14th lowest of 14 · 226% of median 83 9.0
2012 95 7th lowest of 14 · 90% of median 154 3.8
2013 74 5th lowest of 14 · 70% of median 22 8.5
2014 34 4th lowest of 14 · 32% of median 40 2.7
2015 203 13th lowest of 14 · 192% of median 133 4.5
2016 147 10th lowest of 14 · 139% of median 55 2.5
2017 183 12th lowest of 14 · 174% of median 58 3.1
2018 142 9th lowest of 14 · 135% of median 46 3.5
2019 171 11th lowest of 14 · 162% of median 46 10.8
2020 27 3rd lowest of 14 · 26% of median 8 2.3
2021 24 2nd lowest of 14 · 23% of median 30 4.8
2023 116 8th lowest of 14 · 110% of median 67 4.7
2024 78 6th lowest of 14 · 74% of median 26 2.7
2025 21 1st lowest of 14 · 20% of median 9 2.2

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.