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MECITOS D
Structure dossier · WDID 2200604 · 1 · CONEJOS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 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 1858-09-01 — 38th most senior of the 1764 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: FUERTICITOS D (1858-04-01). Immediately behind: 2000CW022 WELL NO 1 (1858-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3166.0 | 1858-09-01 | 1883-10-22 | 38.99 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 26 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,498 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 5,129 AF — 147% of that, and 13th 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 | 3,065 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 85 | 39.0 |
| 2012 | 3,231 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 101 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 1,699 | 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 47 | 31.0 |
| 2014 | 3,226 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 74 | 39.0 |
| 2015 | 2,366 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 61 | 39.0 |
| 2016 | 3,038 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 71 | 39.0 |
| 2017 | 7,204 | 15th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 183 | 38.0 |
| 2018 | 3,300 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 58 | 39.0 |
| 2019 | 4,850 | 11th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 133 | 35.0 |
| 2020 | 3,498 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 4,125 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 86 | 39.0 |
| 2022 | 4,423 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 105 | 40.8 |
| 2023 | 5,773 | 14th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 117 | 39.0 |
| 2024 | 4,897 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 112 | 39.0 |
| 2025 | 5,129 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 115 | 39.0 |
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