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BELLOWS CR D 2
Structure dossier · WDID 2000532 · 1 · BELLOWS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1888-12-10 — 433rd most senior of the 8016 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: BELLOWS CR D 4 (1888-12-10). Immediately behind: BELLOWS CR D 3 (1888-12-10).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16923.14224 | 1888-12-10 | 1903-04-09 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1903-16 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 52 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 6 AF — 12% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 112 | 15th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 77 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 70 | 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 63 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 52 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 54 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 63 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 61 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 104 | 14th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 80 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 89 | 13th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 108 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 37 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 304 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 5 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 52 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 24 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 9 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 8 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 36 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 23 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | 4th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 8 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 62 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 31 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 37 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 19 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 7 | 0.5 |
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