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HIGHLAND LAKE
Structure dossier · WDID 0504039 · 3 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1874-05-31 — 111th 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: RENNER DITCH (1874-05-01). Immediately behind: LEFT HAND RES (1877-04-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8917.0 | 1874-05-31 | 1883-02-21 | 453.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 27910.08917 | 1874-05-31 | 1951-07-23 | 453.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 27910.25172 | 1918-12-02 | 1951-07-23 | 182.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 29219.0 | 1929-12-31 | 1951-07-23 | 635.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 422 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1981, came in at 347 AF — 82% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 298 | 1st lowest of 4 · 71% of median | 8 | 25.0 |
| 1978 | 555 | 4th lowest of 4 · 132% of median | 19 | 35.0 |
| 1979 | 496 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 118% of median | 15 | 20.0 |
| 1981 | 347 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 82% of median | 9 | 25.0 |
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