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QUARTET D
Structure dossier · WDID 2600650 · 1 · SAGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:00 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 1871-04-01 — 33rd 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: W0002 WELL NO 02 (1870-04-01). Immediately behind: FORD D (1871-04-15).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7761.0 | 1871-04-01 | 1898-11-17 | 2.88 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 17A |
| 7958.0 | 1871-10-15 | 1898-11-17 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24A |
| 8127.0 | 1872-04-01 | 1898-11-17 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 25A |
| 8243.0 | 1872-07-26 | 1898-11-17 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32A |
| 8279.0 | 1872-08-31 | 1898-11-17 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32B |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
03CW0005, 11/17/1898.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0005 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | S |
11/17/1898 | 5 | 1898-11-17 | 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 2,765 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 10,437 AF — 378% of that, and 15th 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 | 415 | 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 145 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 481 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 136 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 913 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 188 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 3,292 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 356 | 8.3 |
| 2015 | 2,765 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 290 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 2,926 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 286 | 13.1 |
| 2017 | 4,950 | 14th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 337 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 1,391 | 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 97 | 8.3 |
| 2019 | 3,506 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 301 | 8.3 |
| 2020 | 2,053 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 233 | 8.3 |
| 2021 | 2,939 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 305 | 8.9 |
| 2022 | 3,145 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 303 | 8.9 |
| 2023 | 1,301 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 213 | 9.5 |
| 2024 | 1,632 | 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 314 | 8.0 |
| 2025 | 10,437 | 15th lowest of 15 · 378% of median | 195 | 372.0 |
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 (8/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 10957 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 68% 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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