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0700826

Structure dossier · WDID 0700826 · DWR record

WDID 0700826 is a water structure 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 2026-10-16 01:57 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

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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.

Current administration

● Junior rights called out — call at WANNAMAKER DITCH (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1870-05-23).

● Junior rights called out — call at BLUNN RES (RALSTON CREEK, priority 1861-06-05).

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1860-02-25 — 17th 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 IND D ALT PT 3 (1860-02-25). Immediately behind: 0702419 (1860-02-25).

Decreed rights (28)

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
4855.00000 1863-04-171884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.2975 cfs Storage, Municipal +1 94CW0087
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
6628.00000 1868-02-231884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.5868 cfs Storage, Municipal +1 94CW0087
7030.00000 1869-03-311884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 2.6978 cfs Storage, Municipal +1 94CW0087
7449.00000 1870-05-241884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.0512 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 96CW1117
7773.00000 1871-04-131884-10-04 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.947 cfs Storage, Municipal +1 94CW0087
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
48212.46545 1977-06-081982-12-31 0.0 cfs 30.0 cfs — Storage 82CW0469
53325.50130 1987-04-021996-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 25.0 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +8 05CW0154, 96CW1117
55149.00000 2000-12-282002-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 38.0 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +6 02CW0379
57023.00000 2006-02-142005-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 15.0 cfs Augmentation, All beneficial uses 05CW0302, 20CW3082

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.

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 7449.00000 · peaks at 11 of 11 seasons
AprMayJunJulAugSep
most junior right · admin 57023.00000 · 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 was on all season, every season. In the wettest third (3 seasons), the call settled in for the season around June 24 (June 17 to June 24 across those years); in 1 of them it never lifted at all.

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.

How good is our record of it?

Grade C (5/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity partial missing name, structure type, water source
decreed rights on file 28 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record absent no diversion records cached
record continuity unknown no record span to measure against
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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