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SPRING OVFL D
Structure dossier · WDID 2100597 · 1 · LA JARA ARROYO · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:49 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 in line
Priority 1889-05-24 — 77th 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: LA HOYA D (1888-07-12). Immediately behind: L D ESKRIDGE IRR D (1889-05-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14389.0 | 1889-05-24 | 1903-05-08 | 1.69 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 961/2 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 78 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1988, came in at 10 AF — 13% of that, and 1st lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 60 | 6th lowest of 14 · 76% of median | 7 | 5.0 |
| 1951 | 301 | 13th lowest of 14 · 383% of median | 50 | 7.0 |
| 1952 | 248 | 11th lowest of 14 · 316% of median | 25 | 6.0 |
| 1953 | 81 | 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 18 | 3.5 |
| 1954 | 259 | 12th lowest of 14 · 330% of median | 36 | 6.5 |
| 1959 | 156 | 10th lowest of 14 · 199% of median | 33 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 76 | 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median | 12 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 48 | 4th lowest of 14 · 61% of median | 9 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 334 | 14th lowest of 14 · 426% of median | 86 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 121 | 9th lowest of 14 · 154% of median | 41 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 46% of median | 8 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 41% of median | 17 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 50 | 5th lowest of 14 · 64% of median | 6 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | 1st lowest of 14 · 13% of median | 6 | 1.0 |
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