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LOWER CABIN CREEK RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0704054 · RESERVOIR · CABIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:02 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.
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 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 1962-05-05 — 833rd 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: 0701215 (1951-12-31). Immediately behind: 0704082 (1962-05-05).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44194.41032 | 1962-05-05 | 1971-12-31 | 1988.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECFIS | |
| 53172.0 | 1995-07-31 | 1995-12-31 | 308.8 | 0.0 | A | STOINDAUGEVPPWROTH | |
| 53172.0 | 1995-07-31 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOINDAUGEVPPWROTH |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
95CW0157, 95CW0155, 03CW0142, 03CW0141, W1357.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
95CW0157 | 1 | 1995-12-31 | S |
95CW0155 | 1 | 1995-12-31 | S |
03CW0142 | 1 | 1995-12-31 | S |
03CW0141 | 1 | 1995-12-31 | S |
W1357 | 1 | 1971-12-31 | 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 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 262 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 4,271 AF — 1630% of that, and 4th lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 124 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 47% of median | 13 | 12.5 |
| 2002 | 85 | 1st lowest of 4 · 32% of median | 73 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 400 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 153% of median | 54 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 4,271 | 4th lowest of 4 · 1630% of median | 267 | 22.1 |
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 407 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 7% of the irrigation seasons in 1996-2022 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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