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PARLIN QUARTZ CREEK D

Structure dossier · WDID 2800671 · 1 · QUARTZ CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1895-05-01 — 174th most senior of the 1505 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: CHITTENDEN DITCH (1895-05-01). Immediately behind: WASTE WATER DITCH (1895-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
16557.01895-05-011904-04-29 2.40.0 CIRR 116
17319.01897-06-011904-04-29 0.00.0 CIRR 121
18740.01901-04-231904-04-29 0.00.0 CIRR 127
24074.238961915-06-051918-09-03 0.00.0 CIRR 183
24258.01916-06-011918-09-03 4.40.0 CIRR 186
28311.165571895-05-011943-04-19 13.10.0 CIRR 268
28311.232841913-10-011943-04-19 22.00.0 CIRR 300

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,029 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,350 AF — 111% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 3,238 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 212 27.8
2012 830 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median 141 6.8
2013 1,121 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median 184 10.4
2014 2,457 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 200 14.5
2015 2,364 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 115 24.8
2016 2,811 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 190 12.2
2017 3,447 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 181 18.9
2018 2,008 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median 169 9.9
2019 3,029 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 173 17.5
2020 3,019 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 186 18.1
2021 3,619 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 207 19.7
2022 3,951 15th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 149 17.0
2023 3,091 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 175 17.0
2024 3,790 14th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 191 16.5
2025 3,350 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 177 13.6

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