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AURORA WELL FIELD
Structure dossier · WDID 0805065 · WELL GROUP · GROUNDWATER: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — 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).
Where it sits in line
Priority 1995-11-27 — 11441st 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: 0815228 (1995-11-03). Immediately behind: 0812638 (1995-11-29).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53291.0 | 1995-11-27 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,382 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1996, came in at 1,652 AF — 69% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 864 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | — | 205 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 1,166 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | — | 211 | 9.0 |
| 1981 | 2,382 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 365 | 8.0 |
| 1982 | 1,807 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | — | 365 | 6.0 |
| 1983 | 3,433 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | — | 361 | 14.0 |
| 1984 | 3,055 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | — | 167 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 2,311 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | — | 137 | 10.0 |
| 1986 | 3,239 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | — | 309 | 8.0 |
| 1987 | 706 | 1st lowest of 15 · 30% of median | — | 81 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 2,701 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 273 | 304 | 5.6 |
| 1989 | 3,701 | 13th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 3,181 | 306 | 12.0 |
| 1990 | 3,879 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | — | 339 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 4,364 | 15th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | — | 303 | 10.5 |
| 1995 | 2,107 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | — | 143 | 9.4 |
| 1996 | 1,652 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | — | 118 | 9.3 |
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