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TROUT CR D 3
Structure dossier · WDID 2000876 · 1 · TROUT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1894-06-15 — 446th 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: ALDRICH SWALE SLOUGH (1893-06-15). Immediately behind: TROUT CR D 4 (1894-06-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16923.16237 | 1894-06-15 | 1903-04-09 | 6.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1903-35 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 322 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1979, came in at 742 AF — 230% of that, and 14th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 179 | 5th lowest of 14 · 56% of median | 30 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 730 | 13th lowest of 14 · 226% of median | 93 | 6.4 |
| 1966 | 411 | 8th lowest of 14 · 127% of median | 39 | 9.0 |
| 1967 | 152 | 4th lowest of 14 · 47% of median | 18 | 6.4 |
| 1968 | 421 | 9th lowest of 14 · 130% of median | 41 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 428 | 10th lowest of 14 · 133% of median | 32 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 129 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 40% of median | 10 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 208 | 6th lowest of 14 · 64% of median | 22 | 6.0 |
| 1972 | 97 | 1st lowest of 14 · 30% of median | 8 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 559 | 11th lowest of 14 · 173% of median | 38 | 11.8 |
| 1974 | 144 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 45% of median | 15 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 724 | 12th lowest of 14 · 224% of median | 58 | 6.4 |
| 1976 | 234 | 7th lowest of 14 · 73% of median | 23 | 6.4 |
| 1979 | 742 | 14th lowest of 14 · 230% of median | 51 | 10.0 |
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