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MESA PIPELINE

Structure dossier · WDID 1000609 · 7 · NORTH CHEYENNE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 1860-09-01 — 3rd 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: SOUTH CHEYENNE PIPELINE (1860-09-01). Immediately behind: CASCADE CREEK DIVERSION (1861-03-20).

Decreed rights (10)

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
3897.01860-09-011882-03-06 1.90.0 CMUNDOM
4282.01861-09-211882-03-06 4.590.0 CMUNDOM
4748.01862-12-311882-03-06 1.250.0 CMUNDOM
4808.01863-03-011882-03-06 9.550.0 CMUNDOM
4828.01863-03-211882-03-06 6.520.0 CMUNDOM
4878.01863-05-101882-03-06 1.140.0 CMUNDOM
5113.01863-12-311882-03-06 4.590.0 CMUN
5479.01864-12-311882-03-06 2.00.0 CMUNDOM
8208.01872-06-211882-03-06 0.90.0 CMUNDOM
28595.01928-04-161954-02-08 17.30.0 CMUNDOM 161A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,379 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1989, came in at 538 AF — 39% of that, and 1st 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)
1975 1,379 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 6.7
1976 1,325 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 336 6.6
1977 1,417 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 355 4.2
1978 1,001 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 355 3.5
1979 1,388 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 301 5.6
1980 1,994 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 350 10.6
1981 1,579 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 330 8.4
1982 1,362 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median 219 25.6
1983 742 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median 168 8.4
1984 943 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 249 8.2
1985 3,136 15th lowest of 15 · 227% of median 317 14.2
1986 2,030 14th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 335 11.6
1987 1,632 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 277 10.4
1988 1,359 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 330 7.1
1989 538 1st lowest of 15 · 39% of median 298 2.2

Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 97.7% of a median season / 58.9% dry-year.

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