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CHASE PEYTON D
Structure dossier · WDID 2600517 · 1 · SAGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:15 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 1866-04-01 — 1st most senior of the 1548 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 behind: LUENGEN SULLIVAN D (1866-04-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5935.0 | 1866-04-01 | 1889-11-23 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1 |
| 7775.0 | 1871-04-15 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 18 |
| 8522.0 | 1873-05-01 | 1889-11-23 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 36 |
| 10744.0 | 1879-06-01 | 1889-11-23 | 5.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 81 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
16CW3005, 03CW0005, CA0807, CA0516, 11/23/1889.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
16CW3005 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | S |
03CW0005 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | S |
CA0807 | 2 | 1889-11-23 | O |
CA0516 | 1 | 1889-11-23 | O |
11/23/1889 | 1 | 1889-11-23 | 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 1,416 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 771 AF — 54% of that, and 4th 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 | 261 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 206 | 1.8 |
| 2012 | 327 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 208 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 515 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 237 | 4.8 |
| 2014 | 1,416 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 359 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 2,064 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 249 | 7.9 |
| 2016 | 2,677 | 15th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 351 | 17.2 |
| 2017 | 2,080 | 14th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 350 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 1,280 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 346 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 1,580 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 322 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 1,739 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 364 | 4.8 |
| 2021 | 1,533 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 332 | 4.8 |
| 2022 | 1,707 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 346 | 6.9 |
| 2023 | 1,104 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 365 | 2.8 |
| 2024 | 985 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 366 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 771 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 304 | 5.7 |
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 A (9/10 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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 14878 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 92% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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