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LONG DRAW RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 0303676 · 3 · LA POUDRE PASS CREEK · 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 1862-03-01 — 57th 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: RES 3 ST BD AGRICULTURE (1862-03-01). Immediately behind: PETERSON LAKE RES (1862-03-01).
Decreed rights (12)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4443.0 | 1862-03-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR | |
| 5372.0 | 1864-09-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 6649.0 | 1868-03-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 8480.0 | 1873-03-20 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 10318.0 | 1878-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 11438.0 | 1881-04-25 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 23646.0 | 1914-09-28 | 1945-12-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOALL | |
| 26453.0 | 1922-06-05 | 1945-12-18 | 4201.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 46386.42246 | 1965-08-31 | 1977-12-31 | 6600.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 56224.0 | 2003-12-08 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 59161.0 | 2011-12-23 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 61468.0 | 2018-04-17 | 2018-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9,671 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 6,661 AF — 69% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,870 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 8,666 | 270 | 487.5 |
| 2011 | 12,682 | 15th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 8,225 | 276 | 276.8 |
| 2012 | 6,603 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 13,325 | 256 | 127.0 |
| 2013 | 9,871 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 6,773 | 300 | 172.0 |
| 2014 | 10,796 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 8,255 | 305 | 218.0 |
| 2015 | 7,046 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 11,688 | 265 | 88.2 |
| 2016 | 11,254 | 13th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 11,495 | 297 | 396.3 |
| 2017 | 11,981 | 14th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 6,162 | 290 | 275.8 |
| 2018 | 5,253 | 1st lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 8,508 | 238 | 148.0 |
| 2019 | 10,370 | 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 8,470 | 282 | 229.0 |
| 2020 | 9,284 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 9,685 | 227 | 341.8 |
| 2021 | 9,671 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 11,345 | 166 | 340.8 |
| 2022 | 9,758 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 9,392 | 57 | 349.9 |
| 2023 | 6,297 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 5,399 | 98 | 143.0 |
| 2024 | 6,661 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 8,662 | 70 | 218.0 |
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