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Structure dossier · WDID 0203361 · RESERVOIR · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:51 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 LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).
● Fully called out — call at WESTERN MUTUAL DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1871-08-09).
● Fully called out — call at HARMONY DITCH 1 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1897-05-02).
● Fully called out — call at SOUTH PLATTE RIVER COMPACT (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1897-06-13).
● Fully called out — call at LOWER PLATTE BEAVER D (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1888-04-14).
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 1992-02-28 — 10729th 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: 0200968 (1992-02-28). Immediately behind: 0204126 (1992-02-28).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51923.0 | 1992-02-28 | 1992-12-31 | 3102.0 | 6698.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGWLD |
Legal record & documents
13 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
92CW0018, 22CW3096, 15CW3012, 06CW0222, 18CW3195.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
92CW0018 | 2 | 1992-12-31 | S |
22CW3096 | 1 | 1992-12-31 | S |
15CW3012 | 6 | 1992-12-31 | S |
06CW0222 | 1 | 1992-12-31 | S |
18CW3195 | 3 | 1884-02-04 | O |
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 918 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 13 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 4% of median | 541 | 54 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 918 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 485 | 265 | 26.4 |
| 2010 | — | no recorded volume | 249 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 451 | 4th lowest of 13 · 49% of median | 647 | 178 | 7.0 |
| 2013 | 1,094 | 9th lowest of 13 · 119% of median | 943 | 171 | 41.5 |
| 2014 | — | no recorded volume | 280 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 2,718 | 12th lowest of 13 · 296% of median | — | 31 | 128.6 |
| 2018 | 991 | 8th lowest of 13 · 108% of median | — | 32 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 453 | 5th lowest of 13 · 49% of median | — | 15 | 20.3 |
| 2020 | 1,253 | 10th lowest of 13 · 136% of median | 968 | 54 | 34.3 |
| 2021 | 3,165 | 13th lowest of 13 · 345% of median | 2,471 | 78 | 73.7 |
| 2022 | 2,554 | 11th lowest of 13 · 278% of median | 2,132 | 106 | 59.1 |
| 2023 | 908 | 6th lowest of 13 · 99% of median | 944 | 115 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 614 | 366 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 383 | 304 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1769 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 42% of the irrigation seasons in 2006-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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