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Structure dossier · WDID 2000676 · 1 · PINOS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1887-05-31 — 286th 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: W0499 WELL NO 04 (1887-05-05). Immediately behind: W1846 WELL NO 01 (1887-12-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13665.0 | 1887-05-31 | 1896-05-01 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 312 |
| 19456.15766 | 1893-03-01 | 1916-09-13 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1916-33C |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 29 AF — 54% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 56 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 37 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 12 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 77 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 31 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 86 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 42 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 81 | 13th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 49 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 79 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | 4th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 6 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 224 | 15th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 69 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 3 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 58 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 54 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 28 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 29 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 29 | 0.7 |
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