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D&RGW PALMER LAKE (ANCHOR)
Structure dossier · WDID 1000720 · 7 · NORTH MONUMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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 1867-03-01 — 64th 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: PALMER LAKE WATER SYSTEM (1867-03-01). Immediately behind: PALMER LAKE (1867-03-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6269.0 | 1867-03-01 | 1882-03-06 | 0.89 | 0.0 | C | STOMUNCOMINDRECFIRAUG | |
| 6269.0 | 1867-03-01 | 1882-03-06 | 67.0 | 0.0 | A | STOMUNCOMINDRECFIRAUG |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 32 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 32 AF — 100% of that, and 6th lowest of the 11 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 66% of median | — | 91 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 53% of median | 3 | 122 | 0.7 |
| 2017 | 33 | 7th lowest of 11 · 103% of median | 4 | 214 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1st lowest of 11 · 50% of median | 4 | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 40 | 8th lowest of 11 · 125% of median | 2 | 304 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 66% of median | 0 | 152 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 49 | 11th lowest of 11 · 153% of median | 3 | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 40 | 8th lowest of 11 · 125% of median | 5 | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 40 | 8th lowest of 11 · 125% of median | 5 | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 27 | 5th lowest of 11 · 84% of median | 0 | 366 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 32 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 0 | 304 | 0.5 |
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.