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ELLIOTT D 4

Structure dossier · WDID 2000619 · 1 · PINOS CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1874-06-17 — 63rd 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: ATKINS D (1874-06-15). Immediately behind: LITTLE DANUBE D (1874-06-17).

Decreed rights (3)

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
8934.01874-06-171896-05-01 1.50.0 CIRR 59
9496.01875-12-311896-05-01 0.50.0 CIRR 104
19456.158871893-06-301916-09-13 1.50.0 CIRR 1916-35B

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 165 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 180 AF — 109% of that, and 10th 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 100 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median 37 2.0
2012 112 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 37 2.0
2013 29 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median 15 1.5
2014 250 15th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 78 3.5
2015 194 13th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 67 2.2
2016 175 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 49 2.0
2017 228 14th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 92 2.0
2018 149 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 61 2.0
2019 165 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 77 3.5
2020 142 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 60 1.7
2021 96 2nd lowest of 15 · 58% of median 28 2.0
2022 188 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 58 2.0
2023 125 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median 40 2.0
2024 180 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 59 2.0
2025 180 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 54 2.0

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