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MONTE VISTA PCA AUG PLAN RECHARGE PIT
Structure dossier · WDID 2002077 · RA · RIO GRANDE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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.
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 1896-05-01 — 411th 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: SRS RANCH AUG PLAN RECHARGE AREA (1896-05-01). Immediately behind: ENSZ AUG PLAN RECHARGE PIT (1896-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16923.0 | 1896-05-01 | 1989-12-31 | 430.0 | 0.0 | A | RCH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 130 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 106 AF — 82% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 277 | 10th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 49 | 5.9 |
| 2005 | 372 | 12th lowest of 15 · 286% of median | 53 | 7.0 |
| 2006 | 234 | 9th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 45 | 6.4 |
| 2014 | 37 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 61 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 521 | 14th lowest of 15 · 401% of median | 275 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 495 | 13th lowest of 15 · 381% of median | 366 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 352 | 11th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 365 | 3.8 |
| 2018 | 130 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 304 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 539 | 15th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 275 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 99 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 305 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 113 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 214 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 123 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 216 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 92 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 202 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 102 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 205 | 0.9 |
| 2025 | 106 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 152 | 1.2 |
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