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SAN FRANCISCO D
Structure dossier · WDID 2000824 · 1 · SAN FRANCISCO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:20 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 1873-05-01 — 25th 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: DYER D (1873-04-30). Immediately behind: DEL NORTE PIPELINE (1873-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8522.0 | 1873-05-01 | 1896-05-01 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 16 |
| 8552.0 | 1873-05-31 | 1896-05-01 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 20 |
| 9648.0 | 1876-05-31 | 1896-05-01 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 115 |
| 11871.0 | 1882-07-02 | 1896-05-01 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 236 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
98CW0038, 05/01/1896.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
98CW0038 | 1 | 1896-05-01 | O |
05/01/1896 | 3 | 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 291 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 169 AF — 58% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 563 | 13th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 95 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 575 | 14th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 143 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 368 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 122 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 291 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 111 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 155 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 42 | 6.7 |
| 2015 | 172 | 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 77 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 516 | 12th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 128 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 688 | 15th lowest of 15 · 236% of median | 201 | 4.4 |
| 2018 | 107 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 119 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 430 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 174 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 188 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 89 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 161 | 4th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 83 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 362 | 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 127 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 135 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 66 | 1.6 |
| 2025 | 169 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 63 | 2.9 |
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 (7/10 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 | 4880 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 1965-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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