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Structure dossier · WDID 1301152 · 1 · LAKE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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 1878-04-01 — 254th most senior of the 1017 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: DEWEESE DYE RESERVOIR (1877-12-31). Immediately behind: SQUIRE DITCH (1878-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10318.0 | 1878-04-01 | 1894-02-03 | 4.472 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 44 |
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, 2024, came in at 531 AF — 100% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 722 | 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 151 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 1,738 | 15th lowest of 15 · 328% of median | 215 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 622 | 12th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 115 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 438 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 52 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 302 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 48 | 4.4 |
| 2013 | 94 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 14 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 166 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 24 | 4.4 |
| 2015 | 410 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 58 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 425 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 53 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 536 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 83 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 807 | 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 101 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 530 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 581 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 75 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 531 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 4.2 |
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