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LAWRENCE D 3
Structure dossier · WDID 2600584 · 1 · SAGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1867-05-01 — 15th 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: GOTTHELF D 1 (1867-05-01). Immediately behind: RESERVOIR ENRL D (1867-05-01).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6330.0 | 1867-05-01 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 7 |
| 6352.0 | 1867-05-23 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 8 |
| 6666.0 | 1868-04-01 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 7045.0 | 1869-04-15 | 1889-11-23 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
| 7780.0 | 1871-04-20 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 11444.0 | 1881-05-01 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 95 |
| 12180.0 | 1883-05-07 | 1889-11-23 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 104 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,429 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,560 AF — 109% of that, and 10th 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 | 1,143 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 215 | 6.1 |
| 2012 | 824 | 1st lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 203 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 1,643 | 12th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 280 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 1,988 | 13th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 279 | 5.9 |
| 2015 | 1,320 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 216 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 2,055 | 14th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 273 | 6.8 |
| 2017 | 3,147 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 359 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 959 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 304 | 4.2 |
| 2019 | 1,587 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 357 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 1,429 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 352 | 4.2 |
| 2021 | 1,407 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 353 | 4.2 |
| 2022 | 881 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 212 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 1,240 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 262 | 7.2 |
| 2024 | 1,508 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 285 | 5.1 |
| 2025 | 1,560 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 304 | 6.3 |
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