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NORTH POUDRE RES 4

Structure dossier · WDID 0303704 · RESERVOIR · NORTH FORK CACHE LA POUD · DWR record · probably WELLINGTON TOWN OF’s (matched on DWR’s contact or an EPA intake name; verify below)

North Poudre Res 4 is a reservoir on North Fork Cache La Poud in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-14 00:24 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Who owns it

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.

The record and the river

In short

NORTH POUDRE RES 4 holds 14 decreed rights on NORTH FORK CACHE LA POUD. No active call senior to its rights reaches its district today (20 active calls checked), so it is in priority now. 4 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. That is today's position; the weeks ahead cannot be projected for it: no administrative call record for this basin. In a median year over its last 2 recorded years it diverts 420 acre-feet. It was a party to 1 court cases that also touched 3 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (8 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Download this structure

Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (storage). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Dam safety

Dam NORTH POUDRE # 4 (completed 1956)
Hazard class High
Condition at last inspection Satisfactory (2026-07-31)
Storage restriction None on file
Normal storage 1,570 AF
Physical status Active
Emergency action plan Yes

Source: DWR Dam Safety’s jurisdictional-dam inventory (damsafety/damsafetydaminfojd), refreshed weekly. Joined on this structure’s own WDID as DWR records it on the dam. Hazard class describes the consequence of failure, not the likelihood of it. DWR’s dam record.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (20 active call(s) checked).

4 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no administrative call record for this basin. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1861-06-10 — 38th most senior of the 2964 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: NORTH POUDRE RES 3 (1861-06-10). Immediately behind: MOUNTAIN SUPPLY RES 16 (1861-06-10).

On NORTH FORK CACHE LA POUD at river mile 102.6, it is 38th of 42 down the reach. Immediately upstream: NORTH POUDRE RESERVOIR 5. Immediately downstream: NORTH POUDRE RESERVOIR 6.

Position on the modelled network, not a claim about whose water this is — a stream carries water from many rights at once, and diverted water returns to it.

Decreed rights (14)

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
4179.00000 1861-06-101882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.21 cfs Municipal 08CW0277
4443.00000 1862-03-011882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.139 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
5372.00000 1864-09-151882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.179 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
6649.00000 1868-03-151882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.06 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
7599.00000 1870-10-211882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.49 cfs Municipal 08CW0277
8480.00000 1873-03-201882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.052 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
8659.00000 1873-09-151882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.25 cfs Municipal 08CW0277
10318.00000 1878-04-011882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.093 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
10788.00000 1879-07-151882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.31 cfs Municipal 08CW0277
11438.00000 1881-04-251882-04-11 0.0 cfs 0.0 5.98 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
14550.00000 1889-11-011904-12-09 1074.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation CA1591
20066.19492 1903-05-151922-04-22 707.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation CA2031
23646.00000 1914-09-281945-12-18 0.0 cfs 0.0 3.183 cfs Storage, All beneficial uses 03CW0421
35050.26297 1921-12-311953-09-10 918.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation 95CW0082, CA11217

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 420 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 586 AF — 140% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 2 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

YearDiverted (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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
1996 — no recorded volume 317 0 —
1997 — no recorded volume 350 0 —
1998 — no recorded volume 350 0 —
1999 — no recorded volume 417 0 —
2000 — no recorded volume 572 0 —
2001 — no recorded volume 291 0 —
2002 — no recorded volume 540 0 —
2003 — no recorded volume 394 0 —
2004 — no recorded volume 303 0 —
2005 — no recorded volume 769 0 —
2006 — no recorded volume 372 0 —
2007 — no recorded volume 291 0 —
2008 — no recorded volume 162 0 —
2009 253 1st lowest of 2 · 60% of median 318 63 3.1
2010 586 2nd lowest of 2 · 140% of median 316 154 5.7

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
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights on file 14 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record stale 2087 measured days, but newest is 5840 day(s) before the data's end (target 450)
record continuity sparse 26% of the irrigation seasons in 1972-2010 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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