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CAPULIN D
Structure dossier · WDID 2100510 · 1 · ALAMOSA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1870-04-12 — 16th most senior of the 1041 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: TERRACE RESERVOIR (1870-04-10). Immediately behind: GABINO GALLEGOS D (1870-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7407.0 | 1870-04-12 | 1888-07-11 | 31.37 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 10 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,288 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 5,991 AF — 113% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5,068 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 135 | 31.4 |
| 2012 | 4,153 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 85 | 31.4 |
| 2013 | 3,514 | 1st lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 77 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 5,504 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 115 | 31.4 |
| 2015 | 4,508 | 4th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 122 | 62.6 |
| 2016 | 5,615 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 154 | 38.1 |
| 2017 | 8,542 | 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 188 | 43.4 |
| 2018 | 4,613 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 88 | 44.7 |
| 2019 | 6,393 | 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 153 | 36.5 |
| 2020 | 3,882 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 88 | 40.0 |
| 2021 | 6,209 | 12th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 214 | 36.6 |
| 2022 | 7,408 | 14th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 181 | 34.5 |
| 2023 | 4,857 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 120 | 32.9 |
| 2024 | 5,288 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 158 | 33.7 |
| 2025 | 5,991 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 124 | 35.4 |
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