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EMBARGO D
Structure dossier · WDID 2000622 · 1 · EMBARGO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:34 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 1875-12-31 — 104th 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: ELLIOTT BEVAN D (1875-12-31). Immediately behind: W1447 WELL NO 03 (1875-12-31).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9496.0 | 1875-12-31 | 1896-05-01 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 103 |
| 9953.0 | 1877-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 137 |
| 11111.0 | 1880-06-02 | 1896-05-01 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 191 |
| 13303.0 | 1886-06-03 | 1896-05-01 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 287 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
05/01/1896.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
05/01/1896 | 4 | 1896-05-01 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,602 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,330 AF — 83% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 888 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 163 | 9.2 |
| 2012 | 1,455 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 196 | 9.2 |
| 2013 | 1,773 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 164 | 9.2 |
| 2014 | 2,143 | 15th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 212 | 9.2 |
| 2015 | 1,999 | 13th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 215 | 9.1 |
| 2016 | 1,843 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 218 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 1,976 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 210 | 9.0 |
| 2018 | 813 | 1st lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 158 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 2,102 | 14th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 217 | 8.3 |
| 2020 | 1,015 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 213 | 6.6 |
| 2021 | 1,940 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 217 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 1,351 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 208 | 9.2 |
| 2023 | 1,216 | 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 196 | 8.3 |
| 2024 | 1,602 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 204 | 8.3 |
| 2025 | 1,330 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 192 | 7.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 11868 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 73% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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