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VALDEZ D 2
Structure dossier · WDID 2000830 · 1 · WOLF CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1882-04-30 — 709th 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: MYERS D 2 (1881-05-31). Immediately behind: VALDEZ D 1 (1882-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19456.11808 | 1882-04-30 | 1916-09-13 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1916-13A |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 23 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 8 AF — 35% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 421 | 10th lowest of 10 · 1830% of median | 43 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 62 | 8th lowest of 10 · 270% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 25 | 6th lowest of 10 · 109% of median | 27 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 75 | 9th lowest of 10 · 326% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 35% of median | 26 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | 6th lowest of 10 · 109% of median | 88 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 21 | 5th lowest of 10 · 91% of median | 93 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | 4th lowest of 10 · 74% of median | 37 | 0.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 35% of median | 19 | 0.3 |
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