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Structure dossier · WDID 1400533 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 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 1861-04-01 — 2nd most senior of the 1358 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: WARRANT BARNES & BAXTER (1861-04-01). Immediately behind: PBWW NORTHSIDE INTAKE (1861-04-01).
Decreed rights (22)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4109.0 | 1861-04-01 | 1896-03-23 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 2 |
| 4383.0 | 1861-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 4 |
| 5265.0 | 1864-05-31 | 1894-02-03 | 3.74 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | |
| 6025.0 | 1866-06-30 | 1896-03-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 16.5 |
| 6056.0 | 1866-07-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNREC | |
| 6209.0 | 1866-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6217.0 | 1867-01-08 | 1896-03-23 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 18 |
| 6360.0 | 1867-05-31 | 1894-02-03 | 5.13 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | |
| 7639.0 | 1870-11-30 | 1896-03-23 | 1.47 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 27 |
| 7670.0 | 1870-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 3.4 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 28 |
| 8401.0 | 1872-12-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNREC | |
| 8662.0 | 1873-09-18 | 1896-03-23 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 33.5 |
| 8766.0 | 1873-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 9862.0 | 1876-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 34.5 |
| 10592.0 | 1878-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 0.41 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 36 |
| 11447.0 | 1881-05-04 | 1896-03-23 | 14.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 40 |
| 11494.0 | 1881-06-20 | 1896-03-23 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 41 |
| 11778.0 | 1882-03-31 | 1896-03-23 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 42.5 |
| 12053.0 | 1882-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 12784.0 | 1884-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 13635.0 | 1887-05-01 | 1896-03-23 | 322.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNDOMAUGCURALL | 55 |
| 14610.0 | 1889-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 66,683 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 61,557 AF — 92% of that, and 7th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 73,434 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | — | 252 | 285.0 |
| 2012 | 50,427 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | — | 243 | 216.0 |
| 2013 | 47,947 | 1st lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 246 | 284.0 |
| 2014 | 66,683 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 247 | 278.0 |
| 2015 | 76,350 | 13th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 261 | 277.0 |
| 2016 | 74,903 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 275 | 292.4 |
| 2017 | 85,549 | 15th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | — | 262 | 238.0 |
| 2018 | 54,923 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | — | 250 | 247.0 |
| 2019 | 72,908 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | — | 258 | 320.0 |
| 2020 | 60,724 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 306 | 278.0 |
| 2021 | 55,854 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 1,466 | 365 | 274.0 |
| 2022 | 50,169 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | — | 365 | 246.0 |
| 2023 | 66,976 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 365 | 257.0 |
| 2024 | 79,852 | 14th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | — | 366 | 391.8 |
| 2025 | 61,557 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | — | 304 | 284.0 |
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