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QUATES D 1

Structure dossier · WDID 2400573 · 1 · CUATES CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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 1907-05-20 — 93rd most senior of the 453 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: W F MEYER D (1905-12-15). Immediately behind: QUATES D 2 (1907-05-20).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
20958.01907-05-201935-02-11 2.50.0 CIRRDOM 1934-7

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 394 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 476 AF — 121% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 983 15th lowest of 15 · 250% of median 212 10.0
2012 108 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median 55 1.8
2013 134 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median 104 1.0
2014 126 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median 45 2.1
2015 487 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 164 2.5
2016 366 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 101 2.5
2017 625 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median 224 2.5
2018 398 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 238 2.4
2019 572 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 209 2.5
2020 288 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 209 2.3
2021 506 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 215 2.5
2022 283 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median 209 2.5
2023 307 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 204 2.5
2024 394 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 205 2.5
2025 476 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 214 2.1

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.