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BACA GRANT 4 IRR D 9
Structure dossier · WDID 2500513 · 1 · NORTH CRESTONE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1870-05-01 — 13th 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: GARNER D 1 (1870-04-01). Immediately behind: BACA GRANT 4 IRR D 11 (1870-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7426.0 | 1870-05-01 | 1890-03-28 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 14032.0 | 1888-06-01 | 1890-03-28 | 19.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 126 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,809 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,413 AF — 78% of that, and 7th 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 | 180 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 71 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 183 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 60 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 1,034 | 6th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 140 | 6.5 |
| 2014 | 2,553 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 154 | 39.0 |
| 2015 | 9,832 | 15th lowest of 15 · 544% of median | 137 | 70.0 |
| 2016 | 8,349 | 14th lowest of 15 · 462% of median | 149 | 38.4 |
| 2017 | 3,374 | 11th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 182 | 30.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 3,726 | 12th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 174 | 31.9 |
| 2020 | 1,033 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 82 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 2,086 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 160 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 842 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 178 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 1,809 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 128 | 17.8 |
| 2024 | 3,751 | 13th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 214 | 38.7 |
| 2025 | 1,413 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 64 | 24.7 |
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