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ABUNDO MARTINEZ D
Structure dossier · WDID 2400609 · 1 · TORCIDO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:54 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 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 1874-05-31 — 22nd 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: TORCIDO D (1874-05-31). Immediately behind: GUADALUPE VIGIL D (1880-03-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8917.0 | 1874-05-31 | 1889-06-14 | 1.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA0763, 06/14/1889.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0763 | 1 | 1889-06-14 | O |
06/14/1889 | 1 | 1889-06-14 | 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 5 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 293 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1963, came in at 622 AF — 212% of that, and 5th lowest of the 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 293 | 3rd lowest of 5 · 100% of median | 148 | 1.5 |
| 1960 | 19 | 1st lowest of 5 · 6% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 347 | 4th lowest of 5 · 118% of median | 214 | 1.8 |
| 1962 | 226 | 2nd lowest of 5 · 77% of median | 91 | 1.8 |
| 1963 | 622 | 5th lowest of 5 · 212% of median | 174 | 2.0 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 657 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 71% of the irrigation seasons in 1959-1963 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.