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Structure dossier · WDID 1400604 · 1 · TURKEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:57 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 1909-08-13 — 69th 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: SANDOVAL WELL NO 1 (1909-07-31). Immediately behind: ZITO WELL NO 83044 (1909-12-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21774.0 | 1909-08-13 | 1916-11-25 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 72 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA13693.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA13693 | 1 | 1916-11-25 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 249 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1990, came in at 47 AF — 19% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 559 | 11th lowest of 11 · 224% of median | 141 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 188 | 5th lowest of 11 · 76% of median | 156 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 78 | 4th lowest of 11 · 31% of median | 125 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 337 | 9th lowest of 11 · 135% of median | 171 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 294 | 8th lowest of 11 · 118% of median | 157 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 405 | 10th lowest of 11 · 163% of median | 206 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 289 | 7th lowest of 11 · 116% of median | 179 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 249 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 124 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 57 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 23% of median | 85 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 41 | 1st lowest of 11 · 16% of median | 99 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 47 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 19% of median | 236 | 0.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 11 recorded years (-41 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.029).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1679 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 76% of the irrigation seasons in 1980-1990 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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