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PINEWOOD SPRINGS COLLECTION GALLERY
Structure dossier · WDID 0405633 · 2 · LITTLE THOMPSON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:46 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 1989-11-30 — 1090th 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: LOVELAND PWR-DILLE M FL (1989-11-14). Immediately behind: OLD APPLE POND (1954-12-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51103.0 | 1989-11-30 | 1988-12-31 | 0.22 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 55728.0 | 2002-07-30 | 2002-12-31 | 0.0 | 1.0 | C | MUN | |
| 58782.0 | 2010-12-09 | 2010-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
18CW3173, 10CW0290, 02CW0347, 88CW0236.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
18CW3173 | 2 | 2010-12-31 | S |
10CW0290 | 2 | 2010-12-31 | S |
02CW0347 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
88CW0236 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | 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 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 50 AF — 88% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | 1st lowest of 8 · 12% of median | 60 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 56 | 4th lowest of 8 · 99% of median | 347 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 58 | 6th lowest of 8 · 103% of median | 357 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 57 | 5th lowest of 8 · 101% of median | 269 | 9.3 |
| 2021 | 55 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 97% of median | 349 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 69 | 8th lowest of 8 · 122% of median | 363 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 64 | 7th lowest of 8 · 113% of median | 357 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 50 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 88% of median | 305 | 6.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 8 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2407 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2017-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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