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LOWER LA JARA D
Structure dossier · WDID 2100557 · 1 · LA JARA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:27 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 1883-04-15 — 64th 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: NATE GARRETT D (1882-06-14). Immediately behind: W0491 WELL NO 02 (1884-04-10).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12158.0 | 1883-04-15 | 1888-07-11 | 18.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 63 |
| 12514.0 | 1884-04-05 | 1888-07-11 | 6.23 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65 |
| 13635.0 | 1887-05-01 | 1888-07-11 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 81 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
07/11/1888, 02CW0016.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
07/11/1888 | 3 | 1888-07-11 | O |
02CW0016 | 1 | 1888-07-11 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 185 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 201 AF — 109% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 237 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 39 | 7.3 |
| 2000 | 69 | 6th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 22 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 602 | 14th lowest of 15 · 325% of median | 52 | 13.8 |
| 2004 | 22 | 4th lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 6 | 5.0 |
| 2005 | 83 | 7th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 13 | 5.2 |
| 2007 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 21 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 352 | 11th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 73 | 10.6 |
| 2009 | 757 | 15th lowest of 15 · 409% of median | 101 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 590 | 13th lowest of 15 · 319% of median | 275 | 32.2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 73 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 185 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 13 | 10.3 |
| 2019 | 483 | 12th lowest of 15 · 261% of median | 46 | 8.2 |
| 2023 | 201 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 17 | 12.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4737 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 30% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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