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SANFORD D
Structure dossier · WDID 2200627 · 1 · CONEJOS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1885-10-20 — 130th 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: FOX CREEK D NO 2 (1885-05-30). Immediately behind: W1173 WELL NO 01 (1885-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13077.0 | 1885-10-20 | 1890-10-03 | 107.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 104 |
| 19061.0 | 1902-03-10 | 1914-01-14 | 38.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 172 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,927 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,540 AF — 116% 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 | 3,684 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 57 | 94.0 |
| 2012 | 563 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 39 | 17.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 4 | 15.0 |
| 2014 | 4,075 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 46 | 56.8 |
| 2015 | 2,965 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 47 | 60.0 |
| 2016 | 4,029 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 85 | 90.0 |
| 2017 | 6,528 | 15th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 85 | 60.0 |
| 2018 | 3,027 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 36 | 74.7 |
| 2019 | 6,415 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 81 | 101.0 |
| 2020 | 856 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 15 | 100.0 |
| 2021 | 5,013 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 58 | 90.0 |
| 2022 | 3,927 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 52 | 70.0 |
| 2023 | 6,412 | 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 67 | 92.0 |
| 2024 | 2,736 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 41 | 102.3 |
| 2025 | 4,540 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 72 | 72.9 |
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