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CRITES AUG PLAN RECHARGE PIT
Structure dossier · WDID 2002085 · RA · RIO GRANDE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:37 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 — 413th 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: ENSZ AUG PLAN RECHARGE PIT (1896-05-01). Immediately behind: BRADLEY 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 | 1996-12-31 | 525.0 | 0.0 | A | RCH |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
96CW0038.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
96CW0038 | 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 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 309 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, came in at 56 AF — 18% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 549 | 12th lowest of 13 · 178% of median | 135 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 174 | 4th lowest of 13 · 56% of median | 49 | 4.1 |
| 2004 | 286 | 6th lowest of 13 · 93% of median | 122 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 631 | 13th lowest of 13 · 204% of median | 148 | 7.9 |
| 2006 | 351 | 10th lowest of 13 · 114% of median | 194 | 38.0 |
| 2014 | 344 | 9th lowest of 13 · 111% of median | 135 | 7.2 |
| 2015 | 456 | 11th lowest of 13 · 148% of median | 225 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 309 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 225 | 6.3 |
| 2017 | 330 | 8th lowest of 13 · 107% of median | 224 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 6% of median | 224 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 238 | 5th lowest of 13 · 77% of median | 213 | 4.8 |
| 2020 | 56 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 18% of median | 23 | 3.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 1920 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 47% of the irrigation seasons in 2001-2020 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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