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NORTH SHAW LAKE NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 0603369 · RESERVOIR · IDAHO CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (96d5528) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Which of its rights get called out?

Not computable for this structure: no administrative call record for this basin.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1986-04-30 — 1830th most senior of the 1867 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: MIDDLE SHAW LAKE NO 2 (1986-04-30). Immediately behind: 0603370 (1986-04-30).

On IDAHO CREEK at river mile 22.9, it is 4th of 7 down the reach. Immediately upstream: SHAW LAKES DIVERSION 2. Immediately downstream: KOBOBEL CR5 RESERVOIR.

Position on the modelled network, not a claim about whose water this is — a stream carries water from many rights at once, and diverted water returns to it.

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
55882.497931986-04-302003-12-31 400.30.0 AIRRINDRECFISFIRSTKAUGWLD

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 183 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 183 AF — 100% of that, and 7th lowest of the 13 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

YearDiverted (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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 209 9th lowest of 13 · 114% of median — 20 13.0
2012 135 3rd lowest of 13 · 74% of median 86 45 3.8
2013 399 12th lowest of 13 · 218% of median 116 29 135.0
2014 177 6th lowest of 13 · 97% of median 51 63 2.9
2015 110 2nd lowest of 13 · 60% of median 43 26 6.7
2016 146 5th lowest of 13 · 80% of median 72 44 4.3
2017 343 10th lowest of 13 · 187% of median 205 66 11.6
2018 205 8th lowest of 13 · 112% of median 211 57 9.3
2019 144 4th lowest of 13 · 79% of median — 37 6.3
2020 417 13th lowest of 13 · 228% of median 322 114 4.2
2021 363 11th lowest of 13 · 198% of median 340 152 10.1
2022 — no recorded volume 130 0 —
2023 23 1st lowest of 13 · 13% of median 599 3 4.5
2024 183 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median 127 50 4.2
2025 — no recorded volume 150 0 —

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