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1700575

Structure dossier · WDID 1700575 · DWR record

WDID 1700575 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 2026-10-15 23:02 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.

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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 (spring). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at CHEYENNE DITCH (ADOBE CREEK, priority 1905-04-07).

● Fully called out — call at FORT LYON CANAL (ARKANSAS RIVER, priority 1884-04-14).

● Fully called out — call at LAS ANIMAS CONSOLIDATED (ARKANSAS RIVER, priority 1884-12-03).

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 1948-12-02 — 719th most senior of the 1909 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: ARNOLD WELL (1948-09-29). Immediately behind: RUSSELL WELL NO 1 (1948-12-18).

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. 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
36130.00000 1948-12-021960-08-15 5.0 cfs 0.0 — Fishery 177

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 14 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 1,118 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1983, came in at 1,657 AF — 148% of that, and 14th lowest of the 14 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)
1969 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 1 0.0
1970 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 1 0.0
1972 242 3rd lowest of 14 · 22% of median 61 2.0
1973 1,448 12th lowest of 14 · 130% of median 365 2.0
1974 1,387 10th lowest of 14 · 124% of median 365 2.0
1975 1,025 5th lowest of 14 · 92% of median 365 1.5
1976 786 4th lowest of 14 · 70% of median 366 1.5
1977 1,086 6th lowest of 14 · 97% of median 365 1.5
1978 1,146 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median 365 2.0
1979 1,387 10th lowest of 14 · 124% of median 365 2.0
1980 1,089 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median 366 1.5
1981 1,146 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median 365 2.0
1982 1,569 13th lowest of 14 · 140% of median 365 3.0
1983 1,657 14th lowest of 14 · 148% of median 304 3.0

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 1 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record present 4019 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity continuous 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1969-1983 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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