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NORTH CATAMOUNT CREEK
Structure dossier · WDID 1000575 · 7 · NORTH CATAMOUNT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1861-12-31 — 19th 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: STUBBS & MILLER DITCH (1861-12-31). Immediately behind: SOUTH CATAMOUNT CREEK DIVERSION (1861-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4383.0 | 1861-12-31 | 1882-03-06 | 2.905 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 6 |
| 4780.0 | 1863-02-01 | 1882-03-06 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 11 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 481 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 552 AF — 115% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 307 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 365 | 8.2 |
| 2012 | 444 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 366 | 13.2 |
| 2013 | 404 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 363 | 12.2 |
| 2014 | 295 | 1st lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 365 | 19.5 |
| 2015 | 1,029 | 13th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 365 | 13.2 |
| 2016 | 1,131 | 14th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 366 | 12.8 |
| 2017 | 481 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 333 | 8.8 |
| 2018 | 388 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 365 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 495 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 365 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 325 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 365 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 566 | 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 365 | 10.3 |
| 2022 | 531 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 365 | 11.4 |
| 2023 | 404 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 365 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 1,252 | 15th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 366 | 12.5 |
| 2025 | 552 | 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 304 | 19.3 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.