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RUSSELL RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 1903856 · 3 · WHISKEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1861-11-01 — 15th most senior of the 735 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: GOLDEN EAGLE MINE DISCHARGE (1861-11-01). Immediately behind: MODEL DITCH (1862-03-20).
Decreed rights (11)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4323.0 | 1861-11-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDOTH | 2 |
| 5904.0 | 1866-03-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDOTH | 24 |
| 5994.0 | 1866-05-30 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNIND | 26 |
| 6149.0 | 1866-11-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNIND | 28 |
| 6391.0 | 1867-07-01 | 1903-08-10 | 312.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRMUNIND | 36, R1 |
| 6391.0 | 1867-07-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNIND | 36, R1 |
| 6635.0 | 1868-03-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNIND | 38 |
| 8825.0 | 1874-02-28 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNIND | 68 |
| 9983.0 | 1877-05-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDOTH | 82 |
| 10044.0 | 1877-07-01 | 1903-08-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDOTH | 83 |
| 48940.0 | 1983-12-29 | 1983-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 91 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 587 AF — 645% of that, and 7th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 115 | 5th lowest of 7 · 126% of median | 31 | 2.0 |
| 1968 | 83 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 91% of median | 24 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 79 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 87% of median | 12 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | 1st lowest of 7 · 19% of median | 13 | 0.7 |
| 1991 | 91 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 61 | 0.8 |
| 1992 | 161 | 6th lowest of 7 · 177% of median | 115 | 0.8 |
| 2005 | 587 | 7th lowest of 7 · 645% of median | 135 | 4.1 |
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