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HIDDEN VALLEY GROUNDWATER DIVERSION POINT
Structure dossier · WDID 0705890 · WELL · GROUNDWATER: CLEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:45 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 1992-05-29 — 1585th 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: 0703320 (1992-05-29). Immediately behind: 0705988 (1992-06-08).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52014.0 | 1992-05-29 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 52014.0 | 1992-05-29 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 53325.53202 | 1995-08-30 | 1996-12-31 | 0.89 | 0.61 | C | MUN | |
| 59158.0 | 2011-12-20 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 59516.0 | 2012-12-12 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Legal record & documents
27 decreed actions on record across
7 court cases:
12CW0303, 11CW0271, 96CW0463, 11CW0185, 05CW0018, 92CW0059, 09CW0120.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
12CW0303 | 7 | 2012-12-31 | S |
11CW0271 | 3 | 2011-12-31 | S |
96CW0463 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
11CW0185 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
05CW0018 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
92CW0059 | 7 | 1992-12-31 | O |
09CW0120 | 7 | 1992-12-31 | O |
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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 48 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 33% of median | 59 | 0.4 |
| 2005 | 133 | 6th lowest of 6 · 274% of median | 355 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 104 | 5th lowest of 6 · 214% of median | 352 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 81 | 4th lowest of 6 · 167% of median | 238 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1369 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 34% of the irrigation seasons in 2004-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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