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BIG ELK MEADOWS PL
Structure dossier · WDID 0400807 · 7 · LITTLE THOMPSON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1971-10-13 — 592nd most senior of the 1296 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: BIG ELK MEADOW PL ALT PT (1971-10-13). Immediately behind: CANYON LAKE (1971-10-13).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44480.0 | 1971-10-13 | 1971-12-31 | 0.071 | 0.929 | C | IRRMUNRECFISDOM |
Recorded use (last 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 13 AF — 173% of that, and 6th lowest of the 6 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 80% of median | 23 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1st lowest of 6 · 13% of median | 4 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1st lowest of 6 · 13% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | 5th lowest of 6 · 147% of median | 11 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | 4th lowest of 6 · 120% of median | 9 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | 6th lowest of 6 · 173% of median | 11 | 1.3 |
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