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COORS IND D ALT PT 3

Structure dossier · WDID 0700726 · DITCH · CLEAR CREEK · DWR record

Coors Ind D Alt Pt 3 is a ditch on Clear Creek in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-15 10:59 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (c7f5ca1) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

The record and the river

Where this structure is measured

GageFlowing nowRecordHow we know
COORS APOD #3 DIVERSION CRSAP3CO 0.03 cfs 2015–2026, 4,024 days DWR telemetry mapping
COORS IND D ALT PT 3 0700726A — — named for this WDID
COORS GOLDEN SEWER EFFLUENT CGSEWECO 10.3 cfs 2020–2026, 2,219 days co-located, 46 m

A green link is DWR's own: either its telemetry inventory maps this WDID to that station, or the station is named for this WDID (0700553 → 0700553A). An amber one is ours — the station sits within 250 m and shares a distinctive word with this structure's name, which is a strong hint rather than a DWR statement that this gage meters this structure. Wrong? Tell us.

Flowing now

0.03 cfs as of 2026-10-15 09:00 (2.0 h ago)

Provisional 15-minute telemetry from CRSAP3CO ↗ (COORS APOD #3 DIVERSION). Raw, not the approved record — it is never merged into the diversion history below. DWR publishes the official diversion record after the water year closes and is approved, which is why that record ends months back while this reads minutes ago.

In short

COORS IND D ALT PT 3 holds 24 decreed rights on CLEAR CREEK. No call currently reaches it that we can lawfully attribute, so none of its rights are being curtailed by one. 8 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. In a median year over its last 10 recorded years it diverts 3,015 acre-feet. It was a party to 4 court cases that also touched 11 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (7 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

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Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (diversion). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (18 active call(s) checked).

8 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

No active call verifiably reaches this structure (18 active call(s) checked), so none of its 24 rights is administratively curtailed today. (8 call(s) state no district and sit outside this one — not judged, not assumed.) In the 5 past years most like this one (2022, 2024, 2018, 2020, 2019), 3 of the rights shown below were out at least one week in at least one analog year.

Right (priority)NowAnalog years outMajority out by
1860-02-25 3708 — 0 of 5 —
1860-05-16 3789 — 0 of 5 —
1860-05-31 3804 — 0 of 5 —
… 18 more rights between these …
1985-08-26 50403 — 5 of 5 2026-10-01
1988-12-15 50753 — 5 of 5 2026-10-01
2017-11-22 61322 — 5 of 5 2026-10-01
How this table is built, and what it is not

“Now” compares each right's admin number with today's most senior applicable active call. The outlook uses flows at COORS APOD #3 DIVERSION around 2026-10-01 (the newest reading on file) — currently 0% of that gage's own median for this window — to pick the 5 most similar past years with complete administration records (2005–2026). Only calls that verifiably apply count: DWR's own district statements in the call's set comments, a caller located in this district, or — on the same stream, where DWR records both stream miles (measured from the mouth) — a caller DOWNSTREAM of this structure. An upstream senior cannot demand water this diversion never deprives it of. Calls that state nothing and sit elsewhere are counted as unjudged rather than assumed, which also means the verified record is shorter than the raw one: early calls rarely state districts. For each week it finds the most senior call then in force; a right is out in that week exactly when that call is senior to it, which is why one line prices every right and juniors can be out while seniors keep diverting. “Majority out by” is the first week out in more than half the analog years. A frequency among named historical years, not a probability from a model, and not a forecast of what the division engineer will do. It says how often years whose flow resembled this one were under a call senior to this right in a given week. Snowpack, storage, and the actual administrative decisions of a given season are not modelled. Check the analog years listed: if they do not resemble this year to you, the outlook does not either.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1860-02-25 — 16th most senior of the 1815 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: COORS INDUSTRIAL DITCH (1860-02-25). Immediately behind: 0700826 (1860-02-25).

On MAINSTEM at river mile 51.1, it is 59th of 107 down the reach. Immediately upstream: SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT OUTFALL. Immediately downstream: FAIRMOUNT RES.

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 (24)

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
3708.00000 1860-02-251884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.0426 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
3789.00000 1860-05-161884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.155 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
3804.00000 1860-05-311884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.5086 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
3835.00000 1860-07-011884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 6.169 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
4535.00000 1862-06-011884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.061 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
4896.00000 1863-05-281884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.0886 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
4919.00000 1863-06-201884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.4263 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
5538.00000 1865-02-281884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 2.786 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
5592.00000 1865-04-231884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.448 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
5615.00000 1865-05-161884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.084 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
5785.00000 1865-11-021884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.1253 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
7449.00000 1870-05-241884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.0512 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
8127.00000 1872-04-011884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 23.87 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
10184.00000 1877-11-181884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.228 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
10546.00000 1878-11-151884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.268 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
11647.00000 1881-11-201884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 2.175 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
13240.00000 1886-04-011895-10-09 0.0 cfs 0.0 29.605 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
16549.00000 1895-04-231895-10-09 0.0 cfs 0.0 50.0583 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
16718.13224 1886-03-161936-05-13 0.0 cfs 0.0 6.732 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
19055.00000 1902-03-041936-05-13 0.0 cfs 0.0 129.6112 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
43829.41261 1962-12-201970-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 157.31 cfs Irrigation, Industrial +2 W7585
50403.49546 1985-08-261988-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 99.5 cfs Irrigation, Fire +1 20CW3087, 88CW0268
50753.00000 1988-12-151988-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 55.0 cfs Irrigation, Industrial +2 88CW0272
61322.00000 2017-11-222017-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 2.19 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +7 17CW3177

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Water-court filings naming this structure

2 applications in the monthly water-court resumes explicitly reference this WDID. The resume is the earliest public notice of a new claim (C.R.S. 37-92-302) — years before anything reaches the decree record below. Most applications name structures by name rather than WDID, so absence here is weak evidence of absence.

MonthCaseWhat it asksOppose byExcerpt
2026-08 2026CW3134 reasonable diligence, exchange 2026-10-31 (16d left) CASE NUMBER 2026CW3134 (17CW3177). COORS BREWING COMPANY (“Coors”), PO Box 4030, 5th Floor BOC, Golden, Colorado 80401 -0030, (303) 277 -3342. April D. Hendricks and Peter D. Jaacks, Jewell Jimmerson Natural Resources La…
2026-04 2026CW3066 — closed 2026-06-30 CASE NUMBER 2026CW3066 (19CW3055, 12CW155, 88CW272). COORS BREWING COMPANY (“Coors”), c/o Mr. Benjamin Moline, Director, Water Resources and Environmental Policy, Molson Coors Brewing Company, PO Box 4030, 5th Floor BOC,…

Source: Judicial Branch combined monthly resumes (archive), indexed nightly; WDIDs attached only when a 7-digit token in the filing matches DWR’s structure inventory.

How often is it out of priority?

Across the 11 seasons whose call record is complete enough to judge this structure (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), week by week from April.

most senior right · admin 3708.00000 · never out of priority in these seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep
middle right · admin 8127.00000 · peaks at 11 of 11 seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep
most junior right · admin 61322.00000 · peaks at 11 of 11 seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep

Snow sets the clock here. In the driest third of snow years (3 seasons), the call was on all season, every season. In the middle third (5 seasons), the call settled in for the season around May 27; in 4 of them it never lifted at all. In the wettest third (3 seasons), the call settled in for the season around June 24 (June 17 to July 8 across those years).

Snow years ranked by the district’s April 1 snow-water percentile across 1 SNOTEL site; 11 seasons carry both a snow reading and a judgeable call record. How the past played out, not a forecast.

Why only 11 seasons, and what the bars mean

Each bar is one week: how many of those seasons that right was out of priority under a call this site can lawfully attribute to this structure. Green is never, red is every season on record.

The short record is a property of DWR's data, not of the river. A call only counts against a structure when we can establish it applies — by the districts named in its set comments, or by stream mile on the same source. DWR did not begin stating affected districts routinely until about 2015: fewer than one call in ten can be judged before then, against roughly two in three since. A season we cannot judge is not a season without calls, so it is dropped rather than counted as quiet — 12 seasons dropped here.

This is a frequency over past seasons, not a forecast. It says nothing about what the division engineer will do this year.

Recorded use (last 10 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,015 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,022 AF — 100% of that, and 6th lowest of the 10 years with a recorded volume.

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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2016 830 1st lowest of 10 · 28% of median 49 11.9
2017 3,213 7th lowest of 10 · 107% of median 211 15.9
2018 3,546 9th lowest of 10 · 118% of median 343 17.8
2019 2,733 4th lowest of 10 · 91% of median 271 17.5
2020 2,399 2nd lowest of 10 · 80% of median 249 11.2
2021 2,634 3rd lowest of 10 · 87% of median 269 25.0
2022 3,008 5th lowest of 10 · 100% of median 291 12.1
2023 3,742 10th lowest of 10 · 124% of median 295 18.0
2024 3,464 8th lowest of 10 · 115% of median 219 19.9
2025 3,022 6th lowest of 10 · 100% of median 183 18.3

How good is our record of it?

Grade A (10/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights on file 24 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record current 2380 measured days, newest 335 day(s) before the data's end (DWR publishes ~1 year in arrears)
record continuity continuous 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2016-2025 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.

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