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JAMES TINGLE RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 2304016 · RESERVOIR · MICHIGAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:23 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 2009-04-22 — 18787th 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: 0814770 (2009-04-08). Immediately behind: 0814660 (2009-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58186.0 | 2009-04-22 | 2009-12-31 | 392.41 | 77.59 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | |
| 59201.0 | 2012-02-01 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
12CW0050, 17CW3207, 09CW0180.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
12CW0050 | 1 | 2012-12-31 | S |
17CW3207 | 2 | 2009-12-31 | S |
09CW0180 | 3 | 2009-12-31 | S |
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 154 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 11 AF — 7% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 10 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 | 143 | 5th lowest of 10 · 93% of median | 117 | 13 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 612 | 10th lowest of 10 · 396% of median | 490 | 94 | 13.0 |
| 2012 | 129 | 4th lowest of 10 · 84% of median | 112 | 32 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 426 | 8th lowest of 10 · 276% of median | 200 | 58 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 570 | 9th lowest of 10 · 369% of median | 158 | 82 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 166 | 6th lowest of 10 · 107% of median | 208 | 11 | 12.8 |
| 2016 | 316 | 7th lowest of 10 · 204% of median | 167 | 23 | 10.4 |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 246 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 121 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 68 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 44% of median | 231 | 9 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 192 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 136 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 88 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 4 | 1st lowest of 10 · 3% of median | 341 | 22 | 0.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 7% of median | 140 | 23 | 1.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 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 | 412 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 12% of the irrigation seasons in 2009-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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