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PARADISE VLY RES NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 0703300 · RESERVOIR · PICKLE GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:14 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (4ab2507) — 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 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 FARMERS INDEPENDENT DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-11-20).
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 1993-06-28 — 1616th 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: 0703299 (1993-06-28). Immediately behind: 0705859 (1993-12-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52595.52409 | 1993-06-28 | 1994-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 52889.0 | 1994-10-21 | 1994-12-31 | 23.26 | 1.74 | A | STORECFISAUGWLD |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
94CW0295, 94CW0197, 21CW3071.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
94CW0295 | 2 | 1994-12-31 | S |
94CW0197 | 4 | 1994-12-31 | S |
21CW3071 | 1 | 1994-12-31 | 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 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 17 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 31 AF — 182% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 18% of median | — | 31 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 35 | 4th lowest of 4 · 206% of median | 0 | 80 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 63 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 121 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 180 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 77 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 4 · 0% of median | 199 | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 31 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 182% of median | 94 | 305 | 2.2 |
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 477 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 32% of the irrigation seasons in 2017-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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