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SEELEY LAKE RES

Structure dossier · WDID 0303772 · 3 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1902-06-12 — 248th 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: HIGLEY RES 2 (1899-04-13). Immediately behind: BELLAIRES LAKE RES (1904-07-29).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
20066.191551902-06-121922-04-22 1543.00.0 AIRR
57708.02007-12-312007-12-31 0.01187.3 AAUGRCH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 292 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 91 AF — 31% of that, and 4th lowest of the 13 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)
2005 339 8th lowest of 13 · 116% of median 53 265 2.5
2006 174 5th lowest of 13 · 60% of median 381 122 1.3
2007 292 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median 117 155 2.6
2008 428 9th lowest of 13 · 147% of median 396 95 4.0
2009 475 10th lowest of 13 · 163% of median 590 190 2.5
2010 1,447 13th lowest of 13 · 496% of median 1,417 136 18.5
2011 1,047 12th lowest of 13 · 359% of median 1,376 245 6.4
2012 — no recorded volume 132 0 —
2016 — no recorded volume 305 0 —
2017 58 2nd lowest of 13 · 20% of median 44 127 0.4
2018 82 3rd lowest of 13 · 28% of median 306 152 2.2
2019 188 6th lowest of 13 · 64% of median 553 105 16.7
2020 26 1st lowest of 13 · 9% of median 39 63 0.4
2021 975 11th lowest of 13 · 334% of median 25 151 10.5
2022 91 4th lowest of 13 · 31% of median 968 167 3.0

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.