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NEW THOMAS RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0504379 · 3 · HOWLETT GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:36 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 1879-03-01 — 115th 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: DIVIDE RES (1879-03-01). Immediately behind: LAGERMAN SUPPLY DITCH (1879-11-14).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10652.0 | 1879-03-01 | 1883-02-12 | 285.0 | 0.0 | A | OTHALL | |
| 11841.10359 | 1878-05-12 | 1907-03-13 | 110.0 | 0.0 | A | ALL | |
| 15280.0 | 1891-11-01 | 1907-03-13 | 348.0 | 0.0 | A | ALL | |
| 15738.0 | 1893-02-01 | 1907-03-13 | 17.0 | 0.0 | A | ALL | |
| 22120.0 | 1910-07-25 | 1926-06-01 | 27.0 | 0.0 | A | ALL | |
| 22147.0 | 1910-08-21 | 1926-06-01 | 150.0 | 0.0 | A | ALL | |
| 47847.45471 | 1974-06-30 | 1981-12-31 | 2246.1 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRMUNINDRECDOM |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
81CW0218, W8578, W8577, W8581, W8579, W8580.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
81CW0218 | 1 | 1981-12-31 | S |
W8578 | 1 | 1926-06-01 | S |
W8577 | 2 | 1926-06-01 | S |
W8581 | 1 | 1907-03-13 | S |
W8579 | 1 | 1907-03-13 | S |
W8580 | 2 | 1883-02-12 | O |
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 1 years on record)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 104 | 0 | — |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 7 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 31 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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