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SHERWOOD RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0303520 · 3 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:09 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 1861-06-01 — 18th 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: FT COLLINS NATURE CENTER DAM (1861-06-01). Immediately behind: NORTH POUDRE RESERVOIR 5 (1861-06-01).
Decreed rights (21)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4170.0 | 1861-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6026.0 | 1866-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6483.0 | 1867-10-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6727.0 | 1868-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7092.0 | 1869-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7184.0 | 1869-09-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7761.0 | 1871-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7953.0 | 1871-10-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8218.0 | 1872-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8237.0 | 1872-07-20 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8492.0 | 1873-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8645.0 | 1873-09-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 9236.0 | 1875-04-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 11003.0 | 1880-02-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 15716.0 | 1893-01-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 21392.0 | 1908-07-27 | 1922-04-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 35050.08218 | 1872-07-01 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 35050.08492 | 1873-04-01 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 35050.10736 | 1879-05-24 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 35050.11003 | 1880-02-15 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 46751.20669 | 1906-08-04 | 1978-12-31 | 221.6202 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG |
Legal record & documents
47 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
W9447, 92CW0129, 14CW3144, 05CW0323.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W9447 | 1 | 1978-12-31 | S |
92CW0129 | 22 | 1978-12-31 | O, S |
14CW3144 | 2 | 1978-12-31 | S |
05CW0323 | 22 | 1978-12-31 | O, 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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 31 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 139 AF — 448% of that, and 7th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 179 | 8th lowest of 8 · 577% of median | 138 | 55 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 19% of median | 88 | 63 | 0.1 |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 166 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 46 | 5th lowest of 8 · 148% of median | 160 | 94 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 10% of median | 128 | 32 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1st lowest of 8 · 3% of median | 122 | 32 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | — | no recorded volume | 157 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 16 | 4th lowest of 8 · 52% of median | 145 | 90 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | — | no recorded volume | 114 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 110 | 6th lowest of 8 · 355% of median | 148 | 61 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 139 | 7th lowest of 8 · 448% of median | 110 | 152 | 3.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 8 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 21 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 579 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 26% of the irrigation seasons in 2000-2010 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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