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JERKE WELL
Structure dossier · WDID 0206688 · WELL · GROUNDWATER: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:53 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).
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 1953-05-15 — 3433rd 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: BOHLENDER WELL 1-1955 (1953-05-10). Immediately behind: 0208343 (1953-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37755.0 | 1953-05-15 | 1970-12-31 | 2.55 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 56155.0 | 2003-09-30 | 2002-12-31 | 2.228 | 0.3344 | C | AUG |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
11CW0095, 02CW0335, W0385.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
11CW0095 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
02CW0335 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
W0385 | 1 | 1970-12-31 | 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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 18 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 6 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 | — | no recorded volume | 36 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 79 | 5th lowest of 6 · 451% of median | — | 23 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 95 | 6th lowest of 6 · 543% of median | — | 23 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 35 | 4th lowest of 6 · 200% of median | — | 9 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | — | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | — | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | — | 305 | 0.0 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 786 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 23% of the irrigation seasons in 2008-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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