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QUATES D 2

Structure dossier · WDID 2400574 · 1 · CUATES CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 — 94th 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: QUATES D 1 (1907-05-20). Immediately behind: ROMERO D (1907-11-15).

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 1.50.0 CIRRDOM 1934-8

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 53 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 45 AF — 85% of that, and 6th 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)
2011 74 9th lowest of 15 · 140% of median 32 2.6
2012 33 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median 33 0.6
2013 45 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 44 0.7
2014 108 11th lowest of 15 · 204% of median 43 1.5
2015 236 15th lowest of 15 · 445% of median 86 1.5
2016 137 12th lowest of 15 · 258% of median 62 1.5
2017 194 14th lowest of 15 · 366% of median 110 1.5
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 6 0.0
2019 142 13th lowest of 15 · 268% of median 73 1.5
2020 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 16 0.0
2021 53 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 42 1.5
2022 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 19 0.0
2023 103 10th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 55 1.5
2024 10 4th lowest of 15 · 19% of median 13 0.8
2025 45 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 36 1.5

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.