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COMMODORE D
Structure dossier · WDID 2600519 · 1 · SAGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1871-08-01 — 48th 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 ahead: CARRUTHERS D (1871-08-01). Immediately behind: ELWES D 2 (1871-08-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7883.0 | 1871-08-01 | 1889-11-23 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 23 |
| 13635.0 | 1887-05-01 | 1889-11-23 | 3.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 126 |
| 14001.0 | 1888-05-01 | 1900-06-15 | 1.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 132B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 332 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 193 AF — 58% of that, and 2nd 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 | 232 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 81 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 233 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 122 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 332 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 147 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 588 | 11th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 219 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 906 | 13th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 171 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 1,512 | 15th lowest of 15 · 455% of median | 255 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 1,083 | 14th lowest of 15 · 326% of median | 227 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 498 | 9th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 99 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 301 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 87 | 2.8 |
| 2020 | 505 | 10th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 145 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 682 | 12th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 177 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 230 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 82 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 243 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 156 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 155 | 1st lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 64 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 193 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 123 | 5.7 |
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