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COTTON CR AIRLINE D
Structure dossier · WDID 2500548 · 1 · COTTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:49 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 1868-03-15 — 7th 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: STEEL D 2 (1867-05-15). Immediately behind: HOFFMAN NEIDHARDT D (1868-03-15).
Decreed rights (12)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6649.0 | 1868-03-15 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
| 7379.0 | 1870-03-15 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 7 |
| 7426.0 | 1870-05-01 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 7457.0 | 1870-06-01 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
| 7471.0 | 1870-06-15 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
| 8157.0 | 1872-05-01 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 21 |
| 8227.0 | 1872-07-10 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24 |
| 8522.0 | 1873-05-01 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32 |
| 8901.0 | 1874-05-15 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 44 |
| 9266.0 | 1875-05-15 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 52 |
| 9405.0 | 1875-10-01 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 53 |
| 21401.0 | 1908-08-05 | 1914-06-09 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 139 |
Legal record & documents
19 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W3960, W3408, 06/09/1914.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3960 | 17 | 1914-06-09 | O, S |
W3408 | 1 | 1914-06-09 | S |
06/09/1914 | 1 | 1914-06-09 | S |
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 2 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,822 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1990, came in at 3,331 AF — 183% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 312 | 1st lowest of 2 · 17% of median | 36 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 3,331 | 2nd lowest of 2 · 183% of median | 168 | 38.3 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 12 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 204 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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