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PLUM CREEK PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 1200805 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · 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 1884-04-30 — 282nd most senior of the 1967 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: CROSSWHITE DITCH (1884-04-30). Immediately behind: JOHN SPALDING DITCH NO 2 (1884-05-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12539.0 | 1884-04-30 | 1903-04-13 | 1.33 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 306 |
| 22380.11018 | 1880-03-01 | 1911-05-02 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 220 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 530 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 10 AF — 2% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 693 | 13th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 215 | 1.8 |
| 1988 | 390 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 98 | 3.1 |
| 1989 | 666 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 212 | 2.4 |
| 1990 | 863 | 15th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 204 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 280 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 87 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 386 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 160 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 557 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 171 | 2.3 |
| 1994 | 647 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 162 | 2.1 |
| 1995 | 679 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 165 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 721 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 156 | 2.3 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 459 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 131 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 466 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 169 | 1.4 |
| 2002 | 530 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 204 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 8 | 1.0 |
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