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FOUR MILE AT HIGH CREEK
Structure dossier · WDID 2302904 · STREAM GAGE · HIGH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:53 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 LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
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 1873-08-31 — 425th 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: 2300654 (1873-07-01). Immediately behind: 0804096 (1873-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8644.0 | 1873-08-31 | 1889-10-18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMCUROTH | |
| 9983.0 | 1877-05-01 | 1889-10-18 | 1.38 | 0.0 | C | MUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMCUROTH |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W7931.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W7931 | 4 | 1889-10-18 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 246 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 262 AF — 106% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | — | no recorded volume | 194 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 241 | 7th lowest of 14 · 98% of median | 241 | 55 | 6.4 |
| 2012 | 30 | 1st lowest of 14 · 12% of median | 30 | 34 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 156 | 4th lowest of 14 · 63% of median | 156 | 65 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 564 | 13th lowest of 14 · 229% of median | 564 | 93 | 6.4 |
| 2015 | 569 | 14th lowest of 14 · 231% of median | 569 | 87 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 93 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 38% of median | 93 | 40 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 441 | 12th lowest of 14 · 179% of median | 441 | 93 | 6.4 |
| 2018 | 156 | 4th lowest of 14 · 63% of median | 156 | 64 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 195 | 6th lowest of 14 · 79% of median | 195 | 56 | 6.4 |
| 2020 | 80 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 32% of median | 80 | 25 | 6.4 |
| 2021 | 251 | 8th lowest of 14 · 102% of median | 251 | 63 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 251 | 8th lowest of 14 · 102% of median | 251 | 63 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 402 | 11th lowest of 14 · 163% of median | 402 | 68 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 262 | 10th lowest of 14 · 106% of median | 262 | 72 | 6.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2021 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 23% of the irrigation seasons in 1984-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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