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ROAD CANYON RES
Structure dossier · WDID 2003555 · 3 · ROAD CANYON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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 get called out?
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 1908-05-17 — 906th 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: W2748 WELL NO 02 (1908-05-10). Immediately behind: W1442 WELL NO 02 (1908-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21321.0 | 1908-05-17 | 1916-09-13 | 1182.75 | 1617.8 | A | REC | 1916-68A |
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 312 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 40 AF — 13% of that, and 1st lowest of the 6 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 1,357 | 6th lowest of 6 · 435% of median | — | 49 | 33.2 |
| 1990 | — | no recorded volume | 201 | 0 | — |
| 1994 | 312 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 100% of median | — | 19 | 12.6 |
| 1995 | 137 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 44% of median | — | 11 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 312 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 100% of median | — | 2 | 157.3 |
| 2000 | 1,055 | 5th lowest of 6 · 338% of median | 1,055 | 2 | 531.9 |
| 2010 | 40 | 1st lowest of 6 · 13% of median | 65 | 2 | 20.0 |
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