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RAINDANCE RIVER RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 0303794 · 3 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:50 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 1990-11-30 — 2810th 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: GRANDPA'S LAKE (1990-11-30). Immediately behind: WELD COUNTY DUST CONTROL WELL 1-50426-F (1998-06-04).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56247.51468 | 1990-11-30 | 2004-12-31 | 301.5 | 79.1 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRAUGSNOWLD |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
14CW3027, 04CW0346, 20CW3093, 08CW0065.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
14CW3027 | 2 | 2004-12-31 | S |
04CW0346 | 1 | 2004-12-31 | S |
20CW3093 | 3 | 1882-04-11 | O |
08CW0065 | 2 | 1882-04-11 | O |
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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 986 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 457 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 46% of median | 363 | 93 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 1,096 | 4th lowest of 6 · 111% of median | — | 234 | 15.4 |
| 2021 | 876 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 89% of median | — | 127 | 6.6 |
| 2022 | 1,745 | 6th lowest of 6 · 177% of median | — | 191 | 9.6 |
| 2023 | 1,443 | 5th lowest of 6 · 146% of median | — | 185 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | — | 117 | 0.0 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 947 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 76% of the irrigation seasons in 2019-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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