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NORTHFIELD RES NO 4
Structure dossier · WDID 1003674 · 3 · WEST MONUMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:40 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.
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 1908-11-19 — 167th 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: TELLER RESERVOIR (1908-07-30). Immediately behind: PAYTON WELL (1908-12-31).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21507.0 | 1908-11-19 | 1919-06-02 | 349.8184 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUN | R48 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA13801, CA10146.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA13801 | 2 | 1919-06-02 | S |
CA10146 | 1 | 1919-06-02 | S |
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 94 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 76 AF — 81% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 256 | 12th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 255 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 397 | 14th lowest of 15 · 422% of median | 255 | 7.1 |
| 2010 | 422 | 15th lowest of 15 · 449% of median | 267 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 218 | 11th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | 306 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 360 | 13th lowest of 15 · 383% of median | 366 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 211 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 60 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 144 | 10th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 365 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 84 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 365 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 142 | 9th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 366 | 0.9 |
| 2021 | 60 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 365 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 47 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 365 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 71 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 94 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 366 | 1.4 |
| 2025 | 76 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 304 | 2.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-13 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.038).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 8129 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1992-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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