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BASS LAKE

Structure dossier · WDID 0703412 · RESERVOIR · CLEAR CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).

Which of its rights get called out?

In the 5 past years whose flows most resemble this one (2022, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2025): this structure's most junior right was out of priority in 12 of the next 12 weeks at least once; its most senior right in 12. Its other 1 rights fall between those ends, each taken in priority order.

Week startingMost junior right out inMost senior right out in
2026-08-09 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-08-16 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-08-23 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-08-30 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-09-06 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-09-13 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-09-20 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
2026-09-27 5 of 5 analog years 5 of 5
How this outlook is built, and what it is not

Flows at WADSWORTH DITCH around 2026-08-09 (the newest reading on file) sit at 88% of that gage's own median for this window. The 5 most similar past years with a complete administration record (1950–2026) supply the history; each week asks whether a call senior to a given right's admin number was in force that week of the analog year, using the same controlling-call-per-day computation as the Legal tab. Priority is per RIGHT: a structure with several decrees loses its most junior first, and the columns above are the two ends of its range. 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 1902-03-04165th 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: WEST LAKE (1902-03-04). Immediately behind: TABOR LAKE (1902-03-04).

On MAINSTEM at river mile 53.2, it is 77th of 107 down the reach. Immediately upstream: WEST LAKE. Immediately downstream: LANE DITCH.

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
19055.01902-03-041936-05-13 0.00.0 AIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG
43829.425151966-05-271970-12-31 0.0100.0 AIRRCOMINDRECFIRDOMAUGPWRRCH
61322.02017-11-222017-12-31 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDRECFIRDOMAUGRCH

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.