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SOUTH CATAMOUNT CREEK DIVERSION
Structure dossier · WDID 1000576 · 7 · SOUTH CATAMOUNT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 05:25 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 1861-12-31 — 20th 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: NORTH CATAMOUNT CREEK (1861-12-31). Immediately behind: CHILCOTT DITCH (1861-12-31).
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. | 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 | 0.1767 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 2 |
| 4384.0 | 1862-01-01 | 1896-03-23 | 3.27 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 4457.0 | 1862-03-15 | 1882-03-06 | 0.73 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8401.0 | 1872-12-31 | 1882-03-06 | 1.2467 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 33 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA22956, CA13801.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA22956 | 2 | 1896-03-23 | O |
CA13801 | 2 | 1882-03-06 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 548 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 778 | 9th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 304 | 8.6 |
| 2012 | 546 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 366 | 5.5 |
| 2013 | 548 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 363 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 915 | 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 365 | 4.8 |
| 2015 | 2,272 | 15th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 365 | 11.4 |
| 2016 | 1,655 | 13th lowest of 15 · 302% of median | 335 | 9.2 |
| 2017 | 2,090 | 14th lowest of 15 · 381% of median | 365 | 9.6 |
| 2018 | 150 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 364 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 437 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 243 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 133 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 212 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 827 | 10th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 365 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 1,055 | 12th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 365 | 6.9 |
| 2023 | 336 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 365 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 366 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 21214 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1959-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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