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KIRKPATRICK (PRAIRIE D) RECHARGE PIT
Structure dossier · WDID 2002055 · RA · RIO GRANDE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:15 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 1885-01-05 — 258th 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: SAN LUIS VALLEY CNL (1885-01-05). Immediately behind: KIRKPATRICK (SLV CANAL) RECHARGE PIT (1885-01-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12789.0 | 1885-01-05 | 1996-12-31 | 120.0 | 0.0 | A | RCH |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
96CW0005.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
96CW0005 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | 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 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 264 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 198 AF — 75% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 343 | 8th lowest of 12 · 130% of median | 91 | 6.5 |
| 2015 | 343 | 8th lowest of 12 · 130% of median | 123 | 6.7 |
| 2016 | 362 | 10th lowest of 12 · 137% of median | 366 | 6.2 |
| 2017 | 330 | 7th lowest of 12 · 125% of median | 365 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 36 | 1st lowest of 12 · 14% of median | 365 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 395 | 11th lowest of 12 · 150% of median | 365 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 140 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 53% of median | 366 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 142 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 54% of median | 304 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 143 | 5th lowest of 12 · 54% of median | 32 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 460 | 12th lowest of 12 · 174% of median | 184 | 7.1 |
| 2024 | 142 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 54% of median | 40 | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 198 | 6th lowest of 12 · 75% of median | 68 | 7.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2669 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2014-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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