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Structure dossier · WDID 1800550 · 1 · APISHAPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:45 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 1868-04-01 — 13th most senior of the 367 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: JOSE MARIE VIGIL DITCH 2 (1867-10-05). Immediately behind: NORTHSIDE VIGIL DITCH (1868-05-20).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6666.0 | 1868-04-01 | 1891-03-14 | 3.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | EXC-8 |
| 6787.0 | 1868-07-31 | 1891-03-14 | 7.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | EXC-15 |
| 7092.0 | 1869-06-01 | 1891-03-14 | 8.64 | 0.0 | C | IRR | EXC-23 |
| 12191.0 | 1883-05-18 | 1891-03-14 | 6.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | EXC-39 |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
89CW0032, 21CW3078.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
89CW0032 | 6 | 1891-03-14 | O |
21CW3078 | 2 | 1891-03-14 | 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 15 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 25 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 33 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 239 | 11th lowest of 15 · 1593% of median | 13 | 10.9 |
| 2015 | 15 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 10 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 390 | 13th lowest of 15 · 2600% of median | 48 | 9.0 |
| 2017 | 407 | 14th lowest of 15 · 2713% of median | 102 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 842 | 15th lowest of 15 · 5613% of median | 109 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 377 | 12th lowest of 15 · 2513% of median | 65 | 5.1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 21 | 9th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 156 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 38 | 10th lowest of 15 · 253% of median | 366 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
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 B (7/10 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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1954 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 22% of the irrigation seasons in 1985-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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