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COLO SPRINGS PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 1000627 · 7 · RUXTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:24 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 1861-03-21 — 12th 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: SCHRIVER PARK DIVERSION (1861-03-20). Immediately behind: MANITOU WW PIPELINE "A" (1861-04-01).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4098.0 | 1861-03-21 | 1882-03-06 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 3 |
| 4748.0 | 1862-12-31 | 1882-03-06 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 8 |
| 5113.0 | 1863-12-31 | 1882-03-06 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 12 |
| 10501.0 | 1878-10-01 | 1882-03-06 | 3.1 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 12288.0 | 1883-08-23 | 1919-06-02 | 41.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUN | 126 |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
CA13801, CA10146, CA53132, CA37645, CA37644.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA13801 | 3 | 1919-06-02 | O, S |
CA10146 | 1 | 1919-06-02 | S |
CA53132 | 1 | 1882-03-06 | O |
CA37645 | 1 | 1882-03-06 | O |
CA37644 | 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 2,649 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,119 AF — 42% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 3,681 | 9th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 353 | 21.6 |
| 1990 | 19,830 | 15th lowest of 15 · 749% of median | 304 | 59.2 |
| 2013 | 336 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 61 | 5.9 |
| 2014 | 4,551 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 365 | 12.8 |
| 2015 | 5,673 | 14th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 365 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 4,150 | 11th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 366 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 3,815 | 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 365 | 19.0 |
| 2018 | 169 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 364 | 3.2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 213 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 692 | 4th lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 245 | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 750 | 5th lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 365 | 7.1 |
| 2022 | 2,618 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 365 | 9.5 |
| 2023 | 4,426 | 12th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 365 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 2,649 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 366 | 11.5 |
| 2025 | 1,119 | 6th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 304 | 9.6 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 97.7% of a median season / 58.9% 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 13300 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 98% of the irrigation seasons in 1962-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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