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Structure dossier · WDID 2600590 · 1 · SAGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 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 1869-05-01 — 27th 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: STUBBS GALLEGOS D (1869-04-15). Immediately behind: WOODARD BRO D (1869-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7061.0 | 1869-05-01 | 1889-11-23 | 2.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
| 11079.0 | 1880-05-01 | 1889-11-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 91 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 617 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 411 AF — 67% of that, and 3rd 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 | 336 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 87 | 3.8 |
| 2012 | 50 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 24 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 437 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 106 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 548 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 115 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 970 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 139 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 1,733 | 14th lowest of 15 · 281% of median | 254 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 2,037 | 15th lowest of 15 · 330% of median | 318 | 3.8 |
| 2018 | 883 | 9th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 135 | 3.8 |
| 2019 | 617 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 136 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 1,046 | 13th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 202 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 952 | 11th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 187 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 937 | 10th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 176 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 455 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 147 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 567 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 153 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 411 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 129 | 3.7 |
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