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PRAIRIE D
Structure dossier · WDID 2000798 · 1 · RIO GRANDE · 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 1872-05-01 — 17th 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: MCDONALD D (1872-05-01). Immediately behind: MACLEOD D 1R (1872-05-30).
Decreed rights (19)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8157.0 | 1872-05-01 | 1896-05-01 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 11 |
| 13554.0 | 1887-02-09 | 1896-05-01 | 105.1 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 297 |
| 13605.0 | 1887-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRRCOMRCH | 308 |
| 13971.0 | 1888-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 328 |
| 14336.0 | 1889-04-01 | 1896-05-01 | 2.85 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 353 |
| 16923.14426 | 1889-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 11.07 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-17A |
| 16923.14791 | 1890-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 36.84 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-22C |
| 16923.15156 | 1891-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 59.9 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-24E |
| 16923.15522 | 1892-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 20.18 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-30D |
| 16923.15887 | 1893-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 22.79 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-34E |
| 16923.16252 | 1894-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 20.84 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-37D |
| 16923.16617 | 1895-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 24.74 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-41D |
| 16983.0 | 1896-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 16.2 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-45E |
| 17348.0 | 1897-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 15.63 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-46E |
| 17713.0 | 1898-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 10.42 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-49F |
| 18078.0 | 1899-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 6.51 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-52E |
| 18443.0 | 1900-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 6.84 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-57D |
| 18808.0 | 1901-06-30 | 1903-04-09 | 2.61 | 0.0 | C | IRRRCH | 1903-61B |
| 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 11,848 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 12,757 AF — 108% of that, and 9th 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 | 11,848 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 218 | 286.0 |
| 2012 | 9,548 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 234 | 112.4 |
| 2013 | 5,878 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 207 | 145.0 |
| 2014 | 18,233 | 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 251 | 367.0 |
| 2015 | 20,060 | 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 317 | 352.1 |
| 2016 | 19,983 | 11th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 366 | 403.5 |
| 2017 | 22,195 | 13th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 365 | 308.6 |
| 2018 | 4,177 | 1st lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 365 | 116.4 |
| 2019 | 26,128 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 365 | 377.8 |
| 2020 | 10,896 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 362 | 153.8 |
| 2021 | 10,426 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 320 | 226.1 |
| 2022 | 8,467 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 275 | 203.4 |
| 2023 | 25,203 | 14th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 330 | 333.9 |
| 2024 | 11,598 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 275 | 198.0 |
| 2025 | 12,757 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 304 | 336.0 |
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