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0700877
Structure dossier · WDID 0700877 · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 14:49 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.
In short
0700877 holds 1 decreed right. We cannot judge whether its rights are in priority: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. In a median year over its last 13 recorded years it diverts 598 acre-feet. It was a party to 1 court cases that also touched 1 other structures.
Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (6 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at SWADLEY LONGAN DITCH (RALSTON CREEK, priority 1861-04-09).
● Fully called out — call at CLEAR CR PLATTE RIVER D (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1861-11-01).
● Fully called out — call at WANNAMAKER DITCH (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1860-06-30).
● 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: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1930-01-01 — 1031st 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: 0701269 (1917-12-31). Immediately behind: 0705305 (1935-12-31).
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. | Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44925.29220 | 1930-01-01 | 1973-12-31 | 212.0 C | 148.0 C | Municipal |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W7561, 86CW0138.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W7561 | 2 | 1973-12-31 | S |
86CW0138 | 1 | 1973-12-31 | 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 →
How often is it out of priority?
Across the 8 seasons whose call record is complete enough to judge this structure (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026), week by week from April. Read these as counts, not rates — 8 seasons is a short record.
44925.29220 · peaks at
8 of 8 seasons
Why only 8 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 — 15 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.
Structures it shares court cases with
This structure was a party to 1 court case that also touched 1 other structure — changes of water right, augmentation plans, exchanges. Being parties to the same case does not by itself mean water moved between them; which way it ran, and how much, is in the decree.
| Case | Filed | Also touched |
|---|---|---|
W7561 |
— | RALSTON RES |
How this is derived
Every court action DWR records for a structure
carries its case number. Where one case number appears in the records of
several structures, those structures were parties to the same proceeding.
This is read straight from the cached transaction tables — no
document was interpreted to build it. Case numbers are validated against
the known Colorado formats first: the case column also contains stray
dates (10/04/1884 appears on 98 Clear Creek rows), and
treating one as a case number would invent a shared proceeding between
60 unrelated structures. Cases spanning more than
12 structures are separated out as omnibus
adjudications. The filing year comes from the case number, not from the
row's adjudication date — that date belongs to the water right the
action describes, so a 2006 case legitimately carries a 1989 date.
Recorded use (last 13 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 598 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 939 AF — 157% of that, and 10th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 996 | 11th lowest of 13 · 167% of median | 63 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 77 | 1st lowest of 13 · 13% of median | 21 | 5.6 |
| 2004 | 592 | 6th lowest of 13 · 99% of median | 56 | 15.0 |
| 2005 | 914 | 9th lowest of 13 · 153% of median | 84 | 18.4 |
| 2006 | 113 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 19% of median | 43 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 1,953 | 13th lowest of 13 · 327% of median | 121 | 29.1 |
| 2008 | 484 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 81% of median | 38 | 10.5 |
| 2009 | 572 | 4th lowest of 13 · 96% of median | 23 | 23.0 |
| 2010 | 598 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 23 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 804 | 8th lowest of 13 · 134% of median | 58 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 576 | 5th lowest of 13 · 96% of median | 72 | 7.5 |
| 2013 | 1,058 | 12th lowest of 13 · 177% of median | 60 | 22.6 |
| 2015 | 939 | 10th lowest of 13 · 157% of median | 55 | 18.1 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 5.6% of a median season / 0.0% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade C (6/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | partial | missing name, structure type, water source |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 717 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 24% of the irrigation seasons in 2001-2015 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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