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PRAIRIE DRAIN D
Structure dossier · WDID 2000799 · 1 · RIO GRANDE DRAIN · 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 1917-07-03 — 1402nd 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: W1722 WELL NO 04 (1917-04-30). Immediately behind: W1327 WELL NO 01 (1917-07-09).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24655.0 | 1917-07-03 | 1934-10-15 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1934-1 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 489 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 571 AF — 117% of that, and 7th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 10,930 | 10th lowest of 12 · 2235% of median | 177 | 216.0 |
| 1960 | 19,504 | 11th lowest of 12 · 3988% of median | 218 | 215.0 |
| 1961 | 16 | 1st lowest of 12 · 3% of median | 4 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 22,327 | 12th lowest of 12 · 4566% of median | 246 | 196.0 |
| 1963 | 5,800 | 9th lowest of 12 · 1186% of median | 258 | 124.0 |
| 1993 | 169 | 4th lowest of 12 · 35% of median | 9 | 13.0 |
| 1994 | 407 | 6th lowest of 12 · 83% of median | 19 | 15.0 |
| 1995 | 230 | 5th lowest of 12 · 47% of median | 8 | 25.0 |
| 1996 | 101 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 21% of median | 21 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 1,083 | 8th lowest of 12 · 222% of median | 81 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 125 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 26% of median | 10 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 571 | 7th lowest of 12 · 117% of median | 13 | 24.0 |
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