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SALIDA "OLD" GALLERY
Structure dossier · WDID 1100882 · 1 · SOUTH ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:21 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 1900-03-01 — 403rd 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: KNOX DITCH (1890-06-01). Immediately behind: BYRD PIPELINE (1922-10-16).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28435.18322 | 1900-03-01 | 1932-01-18 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | MUNDOM | NI |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3053.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3053 | 1 | 1932-01-18 | 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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 583 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 1,631 AF — 280% of that, and 6th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 583 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 204 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 45 | 1st lowest of 7 · 8% of median | 20 | 1.5 |
| 1992 | 5,535 | 7th lowest of 7 · 949% of median | 274 | 110.2 |
| 1993 | 52 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 9% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 1994 | 880 | 5th lowest of 7 · 151% of median | 304 | 4.2 |
| 1999 | 182 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 31% of median | 61 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 1,631 | 6th lowest of 7 · 280% of median | 305 | 4.8 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 1229 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 8% of the irrigation seasons in 1926-2000 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.