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HIGGASON SPRINGS

Structure dossier · WDID 1500614 · 7 · SAINT CHARLES RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 19:51 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 in line

Priority 1859-05-01 — 10th most senior of the 704 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: COLD SPRING COLL GALLERY (1859-05-01). Immediately behind: GRANEROS CREEK FEEDER (1859-05-01).

Decreed rights (12)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
3408.01859-05-011893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 3
4748.01862-12-311893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 8
5599.01865-04-301893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 15
5965.01866-05-011893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 23
6666.01868-04-011893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 38
7761.01871-04-011893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 57
7792.01871-05-021893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 60
8553.01873-06-011893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 88
9496.01875-12-311893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 99
9862.01876-12-311893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 106
11688.01881-12-311893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 139
13514.01886-12-311893-06-26 0.00.0 CMUN 169, 173.5

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1984, 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)
1959 60 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 365 0.1
1960 60 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 305 0.1
1961 20 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 103 0.1
1962 40 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 202 0.1
1963 4 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 19 0.1
1969 24 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 61 0.2
1970 145 14th lowest of 15 · 403% of median 365 0.2
1971 121 13th lowest of 15 · 336% of median 304 0.2
1972 24 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 61 0.2
1973 168 15th lowest of 15 · 467% of median 298 0.5
1975 49 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 124 0.2
1977 13 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median 35 0.2
1978 36 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 140 0.2
1979 13 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median 66 0.1
1984 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0

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