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RITO HONDO RES
Structure dossier · WDID 2003588 · 3 · RITO HONDO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:22 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 1954-10-04 — 5593rd 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: STILLINGS D NO 1 (1945-06-02). Immediately behind: BIG MEADOWS RES (1959-08-27).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40940.38262 | 1954-10-04 | 1972-04-21 | 561.46 | 0.0 | A | RECFIS | 1969-5A |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3982.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3982 | 1 | 1972-04-21 | S |
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 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 90 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 452 AF — 502% of that, and 7th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | 4th lowest of 9 · 6% of median | 5 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 561 | 9th lowest of 9 · 623% of median | 561 | 2 | 282.8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · 0% of median | 0 | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 106 | 6th lowest of 9 · 118% of median | 561 | 365 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 456 | 8th lowest of 9 · 507% of median | 561 | 366 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · 0% of median | 0 | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 90 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 90 | 365 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · 0% of median | 0 | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 452 | 7th lowest of 9 · 502% of median | — | 305 | 17.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 9 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 | 2196 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 41% of the irrigation seasons in 1999-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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