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SHELLABARGER EATON D
Structure dossier · WDID 2500649 · 1 · RITO ALTO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:08 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 — 18th 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: HALL D 1 (1870-05-01). Immediately behind: WALES D 2 (1870-05-01).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9A |
| 8341.0 | 1872-11-01 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 26 |
| 8386.0 | 1872-12-16 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
| 8390.0 | 1872-12-20 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
| 8541.0 | 1873-05-20 | 1890-03-28 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 34 |
| 13985.0 | 1888-04-15 | 1890-03-28 | 2.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 123 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W3803, 03/28/1890.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3803 | 4 | 1890-03-28 | O |
03/28/1890 | 2 | 1890-03-28 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 34 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 396 AF — 1165% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 48 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 53 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 42 | 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 229 | 12th lowest of 15 · 674% of median | 37 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 635 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1868% of median | 141 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 34 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 106 | 11th lowest of 15 · 312% of median | 65 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 22 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 37 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 16 | 6th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 29 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 679 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1997% of median | 156 | 8.0 |
| 2025 | 396 | 13th lowest of 15 · 1165% of median | 150 | 4.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2723 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 21% of the irrigation seasons in 1965-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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