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BARNES MEADOW RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 0303683 · 3 · BARNES MEADOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:05 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 — 60th 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: CHAMBERS LAKE RES (1862-03-01). Immediately behind: WORSTER RES (1862-03-01).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 | MUN | |
| 5372.0 | 1864-09-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6649.0 | 1868-03-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8480.0 | 1873-03-20 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 10318.0 | 1878-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 11438.0 | 1881-04-25 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 26409.23646 | 1914-09-28 | 1945-12-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 26409.26135 | 1921-07-22 | 1945-12-18 | 1697.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRAUG | |
| 45655.43337 | 1968-08-26 | 1975-12-31 | 651.8 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNIND |
Legal record & documents
32 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
W9322, 15CW3053, W7983, CA5362, 81CW0136, 07CW0190.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W9322 | 9 | 1977-12-31 | S |
15CW3053 | 9 | 1977-12-31 | S |
W7983 | 1 | 1975-12-31 | S |
CA5362 | 3 | 1945-12-18 | S |
81CW0136 | 2 | 1945-12-18 | S |
07CW0190 | 8 | 1945-12-18 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 880 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 850 AF — 97% of that, and 7th lowest of the 14 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 | 751 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 85% of median | 1,000 | 66 | 44.0 |
| 2011 | 2,249 | 14th lowest of 14 · 256% of median | 2,121 | 177 | 61.0 |
| 2012 | 806 | 4th lowest of 14 · 92% of median | 633 | 264 | 14.9 |
| 2013 | 1,434 | 12th lowest of 14 · 163% of median | 919 | 143 | 32.3 |
| 2014 | 630 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 72% of median | 686 | 32 | 33.8 |
| 2015 | 364 | 1st lowest of 14 · 41% of median | 396 | 60 | 21.7 |
| 2016 | 809 | 5th lowest of 14 · 92% of median | 686 | 143 | 10.7 |
| 2017 | 828 | 6th lowest of 14 · 94% of median | 1,668 | 59 | 26.0 |
| 2018 | 1,354 | 11th lowest of 14 · 154% of median | 407 | 122 | 33.5 |
| 2019 | 909 | 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 1,469 | 72 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 1,485 | 13th lowest of 14 · 169% of median | 1,281 | 46 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 989 | 10th lowest of 14 · 112% of median | 624 | 49 | 35.3 |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 2,017 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 921 | 9th lowest of 14 · 105% of median | 589 | 51 | 41.8 |
| 2024 | 850 | 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median | 630 | 44 | 20.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 9 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5586 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 51% of the irrigation seasons in 1973-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.