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0203835
Structure dossier · WDID 0203835 · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:46 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.
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).
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 1870-05-20 — 658th 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: 0808512 (1882-05-30). Immediately behind: 2300564 (1882-06-10).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11841.07445 | 1870-05-20 | 1900-12-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 16718.10592 | 1878-12-31 | 1936-05-13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
89CW0132.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
89CW0132 | 2 | 1936-05-13 | 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 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 45 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2007, came in at 93 AF — 207% of that, and 9th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 55 | 7th lowest of 9 · 122% of median | 12 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | 1st lowest of 9 · 20% of median | 4 | 2.2 |
| 2001 | 68 | 8th lowest of 9 · 151% of median | 23 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 44 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 98% of median | 11 | 3.1 |
| 2003 | 44 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 98% of median | 24 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 45 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 11 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 52 | 6th lowest of 9 · 116% of median | 8 | 4.5 |
| 2006 | 36 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 80% of median | 12 | 1.8 |
| 2007 | 93 | 9th lowest of 9 · 207% of median | 13 | 7.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 9 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade C (6/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | partial | missing name, structure type, water source |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 118 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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