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DOWNING D
Structure dossier · WDID 2000600 · 1 · LIME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1892-05-01 — 440th 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: MINERS CR D (1890-10-30). Immediately behind: HILTON CR RIVER D (1892-06-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16923.15462 | 1892-05-01 | 1903-04-09 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1903-26 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 17 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 18 | 0.5 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | 10th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 19 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 41 | 14th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 24 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 13 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 9 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | 13th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 18 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | 5th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 11 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 27 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 24 | 11th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 42 | 15th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | 11th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 21 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
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