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DIXON FLUME ON HOLTHUSEN GULCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2302918 · STREAM GAGE · HOLTHUSEN GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:41 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 1872-05-15 — 391st 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: 2302915 (1872-05-01). Immediately behind: 0801123 (1872-06-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8171.0 | 1872-05-15 | 1889-10-18 | 95.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR | |
| 8171.0 | 1872-05-15 | 1889-10-18 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR | |
| 9313.0 | 1875-07-01 | 1889-10-18 | 129.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR | |
| 9313.0 | 1875-07-01 | 1889-10-18 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
86CW0223.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
86CW0223 | 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 128 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 99 AF — 77% of that, and 6th 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 | 69 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 167 | 11th lowest of 14 · 130% of median | 167 | 49 | 2.4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 0 | 22 | 0.1 |
| 2013 | 163 | 10th lowest of 14 · 127% of median | 163 | 84 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 298 | 13th lowest of 14 · 232% of median | 298 | 93 | 2.4 |
| 2015 | 324 | 14th lowest of 14 · 252% of median | 324 | 93 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 145 | 8th lowest of 14 · 113% of median | 145 | 91 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 75 | 4th lowest of 14 · 58% of median | 75 | 71 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 54 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 42% of median | 54 | 50 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 239 | 12th lowest of 14 · 186% of median | 239 | 93 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 148 | 9th lowest of 14 · 115% of median | 148 | 68 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 112 | 7th lowest of 14 · 87% of median | 112 | 86 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 49 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 38% of median | 49 | 63 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 77 | 5th lowest of 14 · 60% of median | 77 | 92 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 99 | 6th lowest of 14 · 77% of median | 99 | 71 | 1.9 |
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2131 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 27% of the irrigation seasons in 1988-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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