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Structure dossier · WDID 0500530 · 1 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1861-03-08 — 20th most senior of the 1289 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: SWEDE DITCH (1861-03-08). Immediately behind: OLIGARCHY DITCH (1861-03-08).
Decreed rights (18)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4085.0 | 1861-03-08 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 4462.0 | 1862-03-20 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 4657.0 | 1862-10-01 | 1882-06-02 | 16.27 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 4883.0 | 1863-05-15 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5295.0 | 1864-06-30 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5600.0 | 1865-05-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5631.0 | 1865-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5996.0 | 1866-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7012.0 | 1869-03-13 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7092.0 | 1869-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7640.0 | 1870-12-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7822.0 | 1871-06-01 | 1883-02-21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 8464.0 | 1873-03-04 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 8553.0 | 1873-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 19271.0 | 1902-10-06 | 1907-03-13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 19273.0 | 1902-10-08 | 1907-03-13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 20890.19756 | 1904-02-03 | 1926-06-01 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 29219.0 | 1929-12-31 | 1951-07-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,004 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,031 AF — 103% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 731 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 251 | 150 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 498 | 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median | — | 168 | 4.3 |
| 2012 | 1,255 | 15th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | — | 178 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 1,004 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 116 | 7.4 |
| 2014 | 908 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 155 | 11.8 |
| 2015 | 731 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 182 | 5.7 |
| 2016 | 922 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | — | 165 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 1,124 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 187 | 6.5 |
| 2018 | 1,122 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 184 | 8.8 |
| 2019 | 934 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | — | 155 | 5.4 |
| 2020 | 1,243 | 14th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | — | 178 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 784 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | — | 161 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 1,233 | 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | — | 183 | 6.7 |
| 2023 | 1,110 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | — | 181 | 6.7 |
| 2024 | 1,031 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | — | 189 | 5.7 |
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