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JEFFERSON HEIGHTS RCHG A
Structure dossier · WDID 2302000 · RECHARGE AREA · MICHIGAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).
● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
● Fully called out — call at HILLSBOROUGH DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1861-11-10).
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 1885-06-01 — 779th most senior of the 21881 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: 2300975 (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: 2302928 (1885-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14536.12936 | 1885-06-01 | 1913-05-22 | 2.78 | 0.0 | A | AUG |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 4 AF — 400% of that, and 13th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 3 | 11th lowest of 14 · 300% of median | — | 8 | 0.2 |
| 1988 | 2 | 10th lowest of 14 · 200% of median | 2 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 0 | 2 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 0 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1993 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1994 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1995 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1996 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 100% of median | 1 | 3 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 3 | 11th lowest of 14 · 300% of median | 3 | 4 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 4 | 13th lowest of 14 · 400% of median | 4 | 5 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 4 | 13th lowest of 14 · 400% of median | — | 5 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 4 | 0 | — |
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