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CS&WD CUCHARA INTAKE

Structure dossier · WDID 1600825 · 7 · CUCHARAS RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1863-06-15 — 10th most senior of the 1044 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: DALTON PUMP AND PIPELINE (1863-06-15). Immediately behind: CS&WD DODGETON INTAKE (1863-06-15).

Decreed rights (7)

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
4914.01863-06-151889-06-12 0.00.0 CMUNCOMSNOALL 2
6666.01868-04-011889-06-12 0.00.0 CALL 8
6698.01868-05-031889-06-12 0.00.0 CALL 9
7031.01869-04-011889-06-12 0.00.0 CALL 12
7031.01869-04-011889-06-12 0.00.0 CALL 13
11820.01882-05-121889-06-12 0.00.0 CALL 59
49504.01985-07-151985-12-31 0.00.0 CIRRMUNINDFISDOMAUG

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 68 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 63 AF — 93% of that, and 6th 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)
2011 16 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median 61 0.3
2012 80 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 366 0.7
2013 84 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 365 1.4
2014 84 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 365 0.4
2015 113 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median 365 1.8
2016 122 15th lowest of 15 · 179% of median 366 0.5
2017 54 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median 365 0.3
2018 54 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median 365 0.5
2019 64 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 365 0.2
2020 75 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 366 0.2
2021 68 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.3
2022 84 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 365 0.3
2023 61 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 364 0.2
2024 31 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median 243 0.2
2025 63 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 304 0.3

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.