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TELLER LAKE RES NO 5
Structure dossier · WDID 0604228 · RESERVOIR · SOUTH BOULDER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:05 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.
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: no administrative call record for this basin.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1872-05-05 — 157th 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: TELLER LAKE RES NO 4 (1872-05-05). Immediately behind: 0600662 (1872-11-01).
On SOUTH BOULDER CREEK at river mile 19.0, it is 58th of 58 down the reach. Immediately upstream: TELLER LAKE RES NO 4. Nothing modelled downstream of it on this reach.
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 (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20188.08161 | 1872-05-05 | 1907-03-13 | 30.79 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 60265.22432 | 1911-06-02 | 2015-12-31 | 236.59 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECFISWLD | |
| 60265.22432 | 1911-06-02 | 2015-12-31 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
15CW3171, CA4842.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
15CW3171 | 2 | 2015-12-31 | S |
CA4842 | 1 | 1907-03-13 | 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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 82 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 39 AF — 47% of that, and 1st lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 59 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 72% of median | 45 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 53 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 64% of median | 16 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 115 | 5th lowest of 6 · 139% of median | 26 | 2.7 |
| 2017 | 136 | 6th lowest of 6 · 165% of median | 31 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 106 | 4th lowest of 6 · 128% of median | 25 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 39 | 1st lowest of 6 · 47% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Its reference gage, LH DAVIDSON DITCH: no clear flow trend.
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 157 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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