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THOMPSON RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0203920 · RESERVOIR · BIG DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1965-06-01 — 19965th 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: MATHISON RES (1965-06-01). Immediately behind: KARSH RES (1965-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59535.42155 | 1965-06-01 | 2013-12-31 | 189.27 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECSTKWLD | |
| 59535.42155 | 1965-06-01 | 2013-12-31 | 16.45 | 8.55 | C | IRRRECSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 286 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 417 AF — 146% of that, and 11th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 254 | 5th lowest of 12 · 89% of median | 196 | 45 | 11.1 |
| 2014 | 778 | 12th lowest of 12 · 272% of median | 411 | 212 | 11.2 |
| 2015 | 342 | 10th lowest of 12 · 120% of median | — | 93 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 314 | 7th lowest of 12 · 110% of median | — | 60 | 8.9 |
| 2017 | 329 | 8th lowest of 12 · 115% of median | — | 86 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 331 | 9th lowest of 12 · 116% of median | — | 85 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 84 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 29% of median | — | 15 | 7.8 |
| 2020 | 257 | 6th lowest of 12 · 90% of median | — | 38 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 185 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 65% of median | — | 57 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 52 | 1st lowest of 12 · 18% of median | — | 17 | 8.5 |
| 2023 | 193 | 4th lowest of 12 · 68% of median | — | 36 | 5.2 |
| 2024 | 417 | 11th lowest of 12 · 146% of median | — | 102 | 5.2 |
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.