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PBWW PUEBLO DAM OUTLET
Structure dossier · WDID 1400639 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 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 1861-04-01 — 6th 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: 1400591 (1861-04-01). Immediately behind: 1400517 (1866-07-31).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 5205.0 | 1864-04-01 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 7385.0 | 1870-03-21 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 7701.0 | 1871-01-31 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 7760.0 | 1871-03-31 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 8035.0 | 1871-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 8116.0 | 1872-03-21 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 8127.0 | 1872-04-01 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | 32 |
| 8857.0 | 1874-04-01 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | 0, 34 |
| 10501.0 | 1878-10-01 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | 35 |
| 11688.0 | 1881-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 12418.0 | 1883-12-31 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | 45 |
| 13240.0 | 1886-04-01 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 0 |
| 13865.0 | 1887-12-17 | 1896-03-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | 57 |
Legal record & documents
22 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
W3954, W3953, W0145, W0076, 90CW0055, 06CW0109.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3954 | 4 | 1896-03-23 | O |
W3953 | 4 | 1896-03-23 | O |
W0145 | 5 | 1896-03-23 | O |
W0076 | 2 | 1896-03-23 | O |
90CW0055 | 5 | 1896-03-23 | O |
06CW0109 | 2 | 1896-03-23 | O |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 25,907 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 22,752 AF — 88% of that, and 4th 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 | 22,476 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 87% of median | — | 311 | 80.0 |
| 2012 | 38,391 | 15th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | — | 366 | 135.4 |
| 2013 | 30,589 | 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | — | 365 | 112.8 |
| 2014 | 32,251 | 14th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | — | 365 | 113.3 |
| 2015 | 32,210 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 23 | 365 | 3095.7 |
| 2016 | 26,784 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 141 | 366 | 73.1 |
| 2017 | 21,984 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 169 | 365 | 70.3 |
| 2018 | 20,043 | 1st lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 159 | 365 | 62.6 |
| 2019 | 24,172 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 166 | 365 | 68.2 |
| 2020 | 27,157 | 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 142 | 366 | 77.7 |
| 2021 | 25,907 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 146 | 365 | 72.9 |
| 2022 | 25,982 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 139 | 365 | 69.2 |
| 2023 | 23,219 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 124 | 365 | 66.5 |
| 2024 | 24,941 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 106 | 366 | 64.5 |
| 2025 | 22,752 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 87 | 304 | 68.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 14 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 8407 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2002-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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