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WAUCONDAH RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0803516 · RESERVOIR · BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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
● Junior rights called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).
● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
● Fully called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).
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 1867-08-30 — 245th most senior of the 21881 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: 0801230 (1867-08-30). Immediately behind: 0803615 (1867-08-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6451.0 | 1867-08-30 | 1883-12-10 | 318.2 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGWLD | |
| 6451.0 | 1867-08-30 | 1883-12-10 | 3.04 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGWLD | |
| 14124.0 | 1888-09-01 | 1890-03-03 | 115.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRINDDOM | |
| 44559.43517 | 1969-02-22 | 1972-12-31 | 220.7 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 52595.43517 | 1969-02-22 | 1994-12-31 | 0.0 | 335.5 | A | IRRRECFISFIRAUG |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 142 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,869 AF — 1312% of that, and 13th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 107 | 4th lowest of 14 · 75% of median | — | 183 | 0.3 |
| 1972 | 62 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 44% of median | — | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1973 | — | no recorded volume | 111 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 38 | 1st lowest of 14 · 27% of median | — | 61 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 234 | 11th lowest of 14 · 164% of median | 22 | 332 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 159 | 8th lowest of 14 · 112% of median | 24 | 215 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 124 | 6th lowest of 14 · 87% of median | 23 | 238 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 262 | 12th lowest of 14 · 184% of median | 23 | 228 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 98 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 69% of median | 22 | 234 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 188 | 10th lowest of 14 · 132% of median | 22 | 250 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 126 | 7th lowest of 14 · 88% of median | — | 216 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 111 | 5th lowest of 14 · 78% of median | — | 365 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 8,127 | 14th lowest of 14 · 5703% of median | — | 304 | 152.3 |
| 2023 | 163 | 9th lowest of 14 · 114% of median | — | 61 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 1,869 | 13th lowest of 14 · 1312% of median | — | 304 | 25.1 |
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