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ARTHUR YOUNG D
Structure dossier · WDID 2500505 · 1 · SAN LUIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1876-04-01 — 96th most senior of the 847 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: HOFFMAN D 2 (1875-05-01). Immediately behind: FORD D 1 (1876-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9588.0 | 1876-04-01 | 1890-03-28 | 16.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 55 |
| 58804.09588 | 1876-04-01 | 1890-03-28 | 12.0 | 0.0 | C | STKOTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 827 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 238 AF — 29% of that, and 6th 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 | 29 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 76 | 0.2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 87 | 5th lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 24 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 2,001 | 15th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 242 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 1,423 | 11th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 365 | 3.4 |
| 2017 | 1,115 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 305 | 8.5 |
| 2018 | 67 | 4th lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 18 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 1,987 | 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 273 | 16.4 |
| 2020 | 1,782 | 13th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 217 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 1,590 | 12th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 242 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 827 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 325 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 800 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 129 | 12.0 |
| 2024 | 881 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 275 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 238 | 6th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 132 | 2.0 |
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