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LA POUDRE RES NO 3 & 4
Structure dossier · WDID 0303377 · 3 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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.
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 1987-12-18 — 2609th most senior of the 2961 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: JO DEE RES 1 (1987-12-18). Immediately behind: 83RD AVE RESERVOIR (1987-12-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50403.5039 | 1987-12-18 | 1988-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | RECFISAUGWLD | |
| 52732.0 | 1994-05-17 | 1994-12-31 | 541.56 | 1058.44 | A | IRRCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 71 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 15 AF — 21% of that, and 1st lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 56 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 79% of median | 202 | 4 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 71 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 793 | 6 | 6.0 |
| 2007 | 755 | 7th lowest of 7 · 1063% of median | 331 | 71 | 25.4 |
| 2008 | — | no recorded volume | 395 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 507 | 5th lowest of 7 · 714% of median | 615 | 21 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 542 | 6th lowest of 7 · 763% of median | — | 27 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | — | no recorded volume | 4 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 38 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 54% of median | 43 | 13 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 50 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 235 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 15 | 1st lowest of 7 · 21% of median | 504 | 5 | 3.2 |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 97 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 162 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 141 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 60 | 0 | — |
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