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STANDLEY RES

Structure dossier · WDID 0203903 · RESERVOIR · WOMAN CREEK · DWR record

Standley Res is a reservoir on Woman Creek in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-15 08:24 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Who owns it

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.

The record and the river

Where this structure is measured

GageFlowing nowRecordHow we know
STANDLEY RESERVOIR OUTLET METER 0203903B — — named for this WDID
STANDLEY RES STALAKCO — — co-located

A green link is DWR's own: either its telemetry inventory maps this WDID to that station, or the station is named for this WDID (0700553 → 0700553A). An amber one is ours — the station sits within 250 m and shares a distinctive word with this structure's name, which is a strong hint rather than a DWR statement that this gage meters this structure. Wrong? Tell us.

In short

STANDLEY RES holds 27 decreed rights on WOMAN CREEK. No active call senior to its rights reaches its district today (18 active calls checked), so it is in priority now. 9 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. That is today's position; the weeks ahead cannot be projected for it: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. It was a party to 15 court cases that also touched 29 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (5 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Download this structure

Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (storage). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Dam safety

Dam STANDLEY LAKE (completed 1913)
Hazard class High
Condition at last inspection Satisfactory (2025-10-29)
Storage restriction None on file
Normal storage 43,344 AF
Physical status Active
Emergency action plan Yes

Source: DWR Dam Safety’s jurisdictional-dam inventory (damsafety/damsafetydaminfojd), refreshed weekly. Joined on this structure’s own WDID as DWR records it on the dam. Hazard class describes the consequence of failure, not the likelihood of it. DWR’s dam record.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (18 active call(s) checked).

9 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1862-06-01 — 91st most senior of the 21886 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: NORTH SIDE DITCH (1862-05-01). Immediately behind: SPRING CREEK DITCH (1862-06-01).

Decreed rights (27)

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
4535.00000 1862-06-011884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.0114 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
5538.00000 1865-02-281884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.5249 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
5615.00000 1865-05-161884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.0158 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
10184.00000 1877-11-181884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.2314 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
10546.00000 1878-11-151884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.2388 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
11647.00000 1881-11-201884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.4098 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
11841.07184 1869-09-011900-12-19 940.37 AF 0.0 — Irrigation, Municipal +8 90CW0211, 18CW3090 +8
11841.07445 1870-05-201900-12-19 0.0 AF 0.0 80.44 AF Irrigation, Municipal +8 89CW0132
15895.07184 1869-09-011918-08-02 940.37 AF 0.0 — Irrigation, Municipal +8 90CW0211, 89CW0132 +8
16718.09967 1877-04-151936-05-13 220.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation, Municipal +4 W8666
16718.10184 1877-11-181936-05-13 0.0 cfs 0.0 2.3439 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
16718.10592 1878-12-311936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 134.4 AF Irrigation, Municipal +8 89CW0132
16718.13224 1886-03-161936-05-13 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.2684 cfs Municipal, All beneficial uses 94CW0036
16718.13758 1887-09-011936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 47.0 AF All beneficial uses 90CW0228
16718.13788 1887-10-011936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 689.5 AF All beneficial uses 90CW0228
16718.14245 1888-12-311936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 213.0 AF All beneficial uses 91CW0070
16718.14519 1889-10-011936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 121.4 AF All beneficial uses 90CW0228
16718.15310 1891-12-011936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 30.0 AF All beneficial uses 91CW0070
19055.00000 1902-03-041936-05-13 32361.0 AF 16699.0 AF — Storage, Irrigation +8 CA60052, 90CW0211 +8
19055.00000 1902-03-041936-05-13 0.0 cfs 0.0 4.6196 cfs Storage, Irrigation +8 CA60052, 90CW0211 +8
19722.00000 1903-12-311936-05-13 0.0 AF 0.0 57.33 AF All beneficial uses 91CW0070
20890.19055 1902-03-041926-06-21 49487.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation, Municipal +8 89CW0129, 89CW0132 +8
29219.00000 1929-12-311953-09-28 1000.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation, Municipal +8 02CW0266, CA12111 +4
50205.00000 1987-06-161987-12-31 3637.0 AF 5755.0 AF — Irrigation, Municipal +6 87CW0335, 97CW0240 +2
51216.00000 1990-03-231990-12-31 5346.3 AF 6653.7 AF — Irrigation, Municipal +8 98CW0381, 90CW0230
53930.00000 1997-08-271997-12-31 77.86 AF 0.0 — All beneficial uses 97CW0369
54036.00000 1997-12-111997-12-31 657.18 AF 0.0 — All beneficial uses 97CW0369

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Water-court filings naming this structure

1 application in the monthly water-court resumes explicitly reference this WDID. The resume is the earliest public notice of a new claim (C.R.S. 37-92-302) — years before anything reaches the decree record below. Most applications name structures by name rather than WDID, so absence here is weak evidence of absence.

MonthCaseWhat it asksOppose byExcerpt
2026-04 2026CW3066 — closed 2026-06-30 CASE NUMBER 2026CW3066 (19CW3055, 12CW155, 88CW272). COORS BREWING COMPANY (“Coors”), c/o Mr. Benjamin Moline, Director, Water Resources and Environmental Policy, Molson Coors Brewing Company, PO Box 4030, 5th Floor BOC,…

Source: Judicial Branch combined monthly resumes (archive), indexed nightly; WDIDs attached only when a 7-digit token in the filing matches DWR’s structure inventory.

How often is it out of priority?

Across the 11 seasons whose call record is complete enough to judge this structure (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), week by week from April.

most senior right · admin 4535.00000 · never out of priority in these seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep
middle right · admin 16718.13758 · peaks at 10 of 11 seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep
most junior right · admin 54036.00000 · peaks at 10 of 11 seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep
Why only 11 seasons, and what the bars mean

Each bar is one week: how many of those seasons that right was out of priority under a call this site can lawfully attribute to this structure. Green is never, red is every season on record.

The short record is a property of DWR's data, not of the river. A call only counts against a structure when we can establish it applies — by the districts named in its set comments, or by stream mile on the same source. DWR did not begin stating affected districts routinely until about 2015: fewer than one call in ten can be judged before then, against roughly two in three since. A season we cannot judge is not a season without calls, so it is dropped rather than counted as quiet — 12 seasons dropped here.

This is a frequency over past seasons, not a forecast. It says nothing about what the division engineer will do this year.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 — no recorded volume 4,445 0 —
2012 — no recorded volume 36,039 0 —
2013 — no recorded volume 30,964 0 —
2014 — no recorded volume 38,311 0 —
2015 — no recorded volume 31,193 0 —
2016 — no recorded volume 4,131 0 —
2017 — no recorded volume 10,393 0 —
2018 — no recorded volume 10,528 0 —
2019 — no recorded volume 26,171 0 —
2020 — no recorded volume 43,879 0 —
2021 — no recorded volume 35,252 0 —
2022 — no recorded volume 38,881 0 —
2023 — no recorded volume 58,014 0 —
2024 — no recorded volume 50,084 0 —
2025 — no recorded volume 37,106 0 —

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
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights on file 27 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record present 5889 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity patchy 65% of the irrigation seasons in 1983-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

Recent watch events

  • 2026-09-22 — legal document update (case 18CW3007)

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