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RUXTON CREEK PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 1000581 · 7 · RUXTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:35 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 1860-02-20 — 1st 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 behind: SOUTH CHEYENNE PIPELINE (1860-09-01).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3703.0 | 1860-02-20 | 1896-03-23 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 001-00-00 |
| 3773.0 | 1860-04-30 | 1882-03-06 | 0.74 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 001-00-00 |
| 4097.0 | 1861-03-20 | 1882-03-06 | 0.07 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 2 |
| 5194.0 | 1864-03-21 | 1882-03-06 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 19 |
| 8401.0 | 1872-12-31 | 1882-03-06 | 0.27 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 19374.0 | 1903-01-17 | 1954-02-08 | 34.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA13801, CA37643.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA13801 | 5 | 1954-02-08 | O |
CA37643 | 1 | 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 976 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 976 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 2,863 | 15th lowest of 15 · 293% of median | 203 | 17.2 |
| 1988 | 2,027 | 14th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 219 | 10.3 |
| 1989 | 806 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 192 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 1,502 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 184 | 11.5 |
| 2015 | 963 | 6th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 153 | 5.5 |
| 2016 | 773 | 1st lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 153 | 7.4 |
| 2017 | 1,382 | 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 245 | 9.6 |
| 2018 | 926 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 365 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 933 | 4th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 274 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 961 | 5th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 245 | 7.8 |
| 2021 | 1,298 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 365 | 10.7 |
| 2022 | 970 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 365 | 8.9 |
| 2023 | 1,411 | 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 365 | 12.0 |
| 2024 | 1,584 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 366 | 10.2 |
| 2025 | 976 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 304 | 11.2 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 100.0% of a median season / 100.0% dry-year.
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 | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12531 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 86% of the irrigation seasons in 1957-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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