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STROMQUIST POND 1
Structure dossier · WDID 0603392 · RESERVOIR · BOULDER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:51 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (5cd37f7) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at RURAL DITCH (BOULDER CREEK, priority 1862-05-09).
● Fully called out — call at JONES DONNELLY DITCH (SOUTH BOULDER CREEK, priority 1860-04-30).
● Fully called out — call at HOWARD DITCH (SOUTH BOULDER CREEK, priority 1860-04-01).
● Fully called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1885-11-20).
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: only 3 analog year(s) have both flow and a complete administration record; 4 needed.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1982-07-01 — 1704th 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: 0600825 (1971-12-31). Immediately behind: STROMQUIST POND 2 (1982-07-01).
On MAINSTEM at river mile 28.6, it is 66th of 78 down the reach. Immediately upstream: NELSON LAKE NO 1. Immediately downstream: RURAL DITCH.
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 (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50403.48394 | 1982-07-01 | 1988-12-31 | 249.5 | 156.5 | A | IRRRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 59966.0 | 2014-03-07 | 2014-12-31 | 471.81 | 140.19 | A | IND |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
23CW3056, 14CW3165, 98CW0312, 88CW0219, 14CW3140.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
23CW3056 | 2 | 2014-12-31 | S |
14CW3165 | 3 | 2014-12-31 | S |
98CW0312 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | S |
88CW0219 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | S |
14CW3140 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | S |
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 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 334 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 168 AF — 50% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 169 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 51% of median | — | 57 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 775 | 9th lowest of 10 · 232% of median | 279 | 88 | 14.8 |
| 2015 | 429 | 7th lowest of 10 · 129% of median | 183 | 67 | 10.0 |
| 2016 | 170 | 4th lowest of 10 · 51% of median | — | 6 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 272 | 5th lowest of 10 · 82% of median | — | 21 | 30.0 |
| 2018 | 138 | 1st lowest of 10 · 41% of median | — | 11 | 14.6 |
| 2019 | 1,183 | 10th lowest of 10 · 355% of median | 1,317 | 54 | 31.5 |
| 2020 | 395 | 6th lowest of 10 · 118% of median | 447 | 43 | 9.6 |
| 2021 | 657 | 8th lowest of 10 · 197% of median | 422 | 35 | 33.3 |
| 2024 | 168 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 50% of median | — | 13 | 14.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
Its reference gage, SMITH EMMONS DITCH: no clear flow trend.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | current | 395 measured days, newest 441 day(s) before the data's end (DWR publishes ~1 year in arrears) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 2008-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.