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SHAW D 1
Structure dossier · WDID 2000836 · 1 · SHAW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1878-04-30 — 152nd 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: MACLEOD D 5 (1878-04-01). Immediately behind: SHAW CREEK SUBDIVISION AUG PLAN (1878-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10347.0 | 1878-04-30 | 1896-05-01 | 3.619 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 148 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 192 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 647 AF — 337% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 15 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 46 | 0.4 |
| 2003 | 47 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 47 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 183 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 220 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 291 | 10th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 192 | 1.6 |
| 2006 | 181 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 156 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 45 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 86 | 0.4 |
| 2008 | 644 | 14th lowest of 15 · 335% of median | 205 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 621 | 12th lowest of 15 · 323% of median | 193 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 635 | 13th lowest of 15 · 331% of median | 193 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 173 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 129 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 233 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 144 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 78 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 70 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 192 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 133 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 326 | 11th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 158 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | 647 | 15th lowest of 15 · 337% of median | 214 | 4.0 |
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