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Structure dossier · WDID 1100606 · 1 · LITTLE COCHETOPA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1888-05-01 — 234th most senior of the 1489 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: EL-CAMPUS DITCH (1888-03-31). Immediately behind: ANDERSON PINE CREEK (1888-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14001.0 | 1888-05-01 | 1890-06-19 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 167 |
| 14469.0 | 1889-08-12 | 1890-06-19 | 3.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 181 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 217 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 217 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 162 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 21 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 48 | 4th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 10 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 351 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 53 | 4.8 |
| 2008 | 301 | 11th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 41 | 3.8 |
| 2009 | 457 | 15th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 50 | 4.8 |
| 2010 | 175 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 32 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 363 | 14th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 46 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 11 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 327 | 12th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 57 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 294 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 39 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 226 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 52 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 145 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 28 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 217 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 28 | 4.8 |
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