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Structure dossier · WDID 2000631 · 1 · RIO GRANDE · 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 1887-04-01 — 284th 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: J COOLEY AUG PLAN RECHARGE PIT (1887-02-09). Immediately behind: W0499 WELL NO 04 (1887-05-05).
Decreed rights (10)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13605.0 | 1887-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 0.16 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 308 |
| 13827.0 | 1887-11-09 | 1896-05-01 | 138.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 314 |
| 13971.0 | 1888-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 328 |
| 14336.0 | 1889-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 0.95 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 353 |
| 16923.14426 | 1889-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 5.45 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-17B |
| 16923.14791 | 1890-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 105.41 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-22E |
| 16923.15156 | 1891-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 280.47 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-24F |
| 16923.15522 | 1892-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 159.69 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-30F |
| 16923.15887 | 1893-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 110.18 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-34G |
| 47116.40116 | 1959-11-01 | 1979-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | RCH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 24,179 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 26,037 AF — 108% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24,179 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 214 | 563.0 |
| 2012 | 18,367 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | — | 55 | 440.3 |
| 2013 | 11,516 | 1st lowest of 15 · 48% of median | — | 30 | 510.0 |
| 2014 | 48,082 | 12th lowest of 15 · 199% of median | — | 69 | 801.4 |
| 2015 | 55,204 | 14th lowest of 15 · 228% of median | — | 183 | 803.9 |
| 2016 | 47,047 | 10th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | — | 366 | 807.8 |
| 2017 | 47,629 | 11th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | — | 365 | 806.8 |
| 2018 | 17,690 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 365 | 457.1 |
| 2019 | 65,310 | 15th lowest of 15 · 270% of median | — | 365 | 809.2 |
| 2020 | 14,100 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | — | 323 | 311.1 |
| 2021 | 17,748 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 101 | 829.5 |
| 2022 | 17,000 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | — | 365 | 378.2 |
| 2023 | 53,835 | 13th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | — | 324 | 769.0 |
| 2024 | 17,382 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 147 | 350.5 |
| 2025 | 26,037 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | — | 304 | 598.0 |
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