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DAVIES BROS D

Structure dossier · WDID 2000588 · 1 · EMBARGO CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1878-06-01 — 155th 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: LARICK D 9 (1878-05-02). Immediately behind: RIO GRANDE SAN LUIS D (1878-06-01).

Decreed rights (2)

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
10379.01878-06-011896-05-01 2.60.0 CIRR 155
22633.01911-12-201916-09-13 5.50.0 CIRR 1916-88

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 787 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 685 AF — 87% of that, and 7th 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 363 1st lowest of 15 · 46% of median 107 2.6
2012 573 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 169 2.6
2013 655 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 141 2.6
2014 794 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 191 2.6
2015 868 13th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 195 2.6
2016 999 14th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 214 2.6
2017 864 12th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 209 2.6
2018 554 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 146 2.6
2019 787 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 165 3.2
2020 479 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median 136 2.6
2021 826 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 177 2.6
2022 1,017 15th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 212 2.6
2023 526 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median 123 2.6
2024 793 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 191 2.6
2025 685 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 203 2.6

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.