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CASCADE CREEK DIVERSION

Structure dossier · WDID 1000572 · 7 · CASCADE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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.

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 1861-03-20 — 4th most senior of the 2864 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: MESA PIPELINE (1860-09-01). Immediately behind: FRENCH CREEK DIVERSION (1861-03-20).

Decreed rights (4)

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
4097.01861-03-201882-03-06 0.00.0 CIRRMUN 2
4282.01861-09-211882-03-06 2.70.0 CMUN 5
4383.01861-12-311882-03-06 0.00.0 CIRRMUN 33
5479.01864-12-311882-03-06 2.250.0 CMUN 23

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 754 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 560 AF — 74% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 1,140 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median 365 4.4
2012 838 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 366 2.7
2013 1,086 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 365 4.3
2014 1,260 15th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 365 3.8
2015 804 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 365 5.2
2016 1,171 14th lowest of 15 · 155% of median 366 5.2
2017 754 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 335 2.6
2018 109 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median 364 0.7
2019 869 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 334 4.1
2020 88 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median 247 1.9
2021 588 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 365 2.6
2022 439 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median 365 2.5
2023 313 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median 365 2.1
2024 491 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median 366 2.6
2025 560 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 304 2.4

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