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1400535

Structure dossier · WDID 1400535 · DWR record

WDID 1400535 is a water structure in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-14 04:07 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Who owns it

  • West Pueblo Ditch and Reservoir Company (nonprofit corporation) — probable match, from the Colorado Secretary of State business record ↗; verify before relying on it. A nonprofit corporation of this name, in good standing, with its principal office in Pueblo; matched on the name and the location, not confirmed by the company.

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.

The record and the river

In short

1400535 holds 5 decreed rights. No active call senior to its rights reaches its district today (18 active calls checked), so it is in priority now. 18 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. That is today's position; the weeks ahead cannot be projected for it: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 374 acre-feet. That use is falling by about 54.3 acre-feet a year over 15 years (p=0.003463153182675205). It was a party to 3 court cases that also touched 6 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (11 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Download this structure

Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (diversion). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (18 active call(s) checked).

18 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1872-04-01 — 14th most senior of the 1361 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: PUEBLO RESERVOIR (1870-11-30). Immediately behind: RIMROCK DEVELOPMENT WELL (1872-04-01).

Decreed rights (5)

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
8127.00000 1872-04-011896-03-23 1.1928 cfs 0.0 — Irrigation, All beneficial uses 32
8857.00000 1874-04-011896-03-23 0.994 cfs 0.0 — Irrigation 34
10501.00000 1878-10-011896-03-23 0.5748 cfs 0.0 — Irrigation 35
12418.00000 1883-12-311896-03-23 0.3976 cfs 0.0 — Irrigation 45
13865.00000 1887-12-171896-03-23 14.964 cfs 0.0 — Irrigation 57

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 374 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1998, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 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)
1983 760 13th lowest of 15 · 203% of median 146 12.0
1984 1,265 15th lowest of 15 · 338% of median 113 13.0
1985 637 10th lowest of 15 · 170% of median 119 18.8
1986 47 4th lowest of 15 · 13% of median 37 10.0
1987 345 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 44 42.5
1988 727 12th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 180 3.2
1989 1,180 14th lowest of 15 · 316% of median 227 7.0
1990 707 11th lowest of 15 · 189% of median 202 10.0
1991 374 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 113 10.0
1992 196 6th lowest of 15 · 52% of median 200 0.5
1993 554 9th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 169 4.3
1994 3 3rd lowest of 15 · 1% of median 40 0.2
1995 48 5th lowest of 15 · 13% of median 38 3.0
1997 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 8 0.0
1998 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 14 0.0

Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 0.0% of a median season / 0.0% dry-year.

How good is our record of it?

Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity partial missing name, structure type, water source
decreed rights on file 5 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record present 17455 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity continuous 93% of the irrigation seasons in 1911-1998 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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