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NEWCOMB BROS D
Structure dossier · WDID 2100569 · 1 · LA JARA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1873-05-14 — 33rd 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: ESKRIDGE GARRETT D (1873-05-14). Immediately behind: ROMALDO VALDEZ D (1873-05-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8535.0 | 1873-05-14 | 1888-07-11 | 9.02 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 23 |
| 10075.0 | 1877-08-01 | 1888-07-11 | 7.16 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 42 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 374 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 629 AF — 168% of that, and 12th 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 | 510 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 115 | 5.5 |
| 2012 | 355 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 78 | 4.4 |
| 2013 | 374 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 75 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 644 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 92 | 6.4 |
| 2015 | 53 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 9 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 137 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 60 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 644 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 133 | 7.9 |
| 2018 | 256 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 80 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 332 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 97 | 6.2 |
| 2020 | 347 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 48 | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 571 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 76 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 264 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 57 | 24.0 |
| 2023 | 763 | 15th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 200 | 5.2 |
| 2024 | 543 | 10th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 67 | 9.2 |
| 2025 | 629 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 79 | 9.0 |
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