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Structure dossier · WDID 2400599 · 1 · CUATES CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1905-12-15 — 92nd 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: VIGIL D (1905-12-15). Immediately behind: QUATES D 1 (1907-05-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20437.0 | 1905-12-15 | 1935-02-11 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1934-6 |
| 60996.27453 | 1925-03-01 | 2017-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 60996.31502 | 1936-04-01 | 2017-12-31 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,140 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,228 AF — 108% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 454 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 103 | 5.9 |
| 2012 | 657 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 128 | 5.1 |
| 2013 | 653 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 121 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 450 | 1st lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 87 | 9.7 |
| 2015 | 1,180 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 204 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 1,284 | 13th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 222 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 1,260 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 243 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 877 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 250 | 3.9 |
| 2019 | 902 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 215 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 1,457 | 15th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 210 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 1,140 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 214 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 1,272 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 214 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1,320 | 14th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 215 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 1,084 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 214 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 1,228 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 211 | 4.0 |
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