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Structure dossier · WDID 0500557 · 1 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1864-01-01 — 71st 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: HAGERS MEADOW DITCH (1864-01-01). Immediately behind: COFFMAN DITCH (1864-05-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5114.0 | 1864-01-01 | 1882-06-02 | 5.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 482 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 663 AF — 138% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 396 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 153 | 2.3 |
| 2011 | 477 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 175 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 514 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 208 | 1.9 |
| 2013 | 326 | 1st lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 123 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 430 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 155 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 357 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 165 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 497 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 174 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 657 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 184 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 541 | 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 178 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 534 | 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 172 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 426 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 176 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 482 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 162 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 518 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 186 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 424 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 192 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 663 | 15th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 197 | 4.3 |
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