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ROCKVALE TOWN WELL NO 1

Structure dossier · WDID 1205009 · 2 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1867-05-31 — 53rd 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: W H MAY DITCH (1867-05-31). Immediately behind: ROCKVALE TOWN WELL NO 2 (1867-05-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
6360.01867-05-311894-02-03 0.00.0 CIRRMUNDOM

Recorded use (last 11 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 127 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1992, came in at 127 AF — 100% of that, and 6th lowest of the 11 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1926 48 5th lowest of 11 · 38% of median 61 0.4
1927 268 11th lowest of 11 · 211% of median 304 0.5
1933 46 4th lowest of 11 · 36% of median 58 0.4
1934 214 10th lowest of 11 · 168% of median 304 0.4
1936 36 3rd lowest of 11 · 28% of median 61 0.3
1937 181 9th lowest of 11 · 142% of median 304 0.3
1988 34 2nd lowest of 11 · 27% of median 61 0.3
1989 129 7th lowest of 11 · 102% of median 304 0.3
1990 24 1st lowest of 11 · 19% of median 61 0.2
1991 166 8th lowest of 11 · 131% of median 365 0.3
1992 127 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median 305 0.2

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.