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Structure dossier · WDID 2800695 · 1 · ALDER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1882-06-01 — 88th 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: MEANS BROS. NO. 10 DITCH (1882-06-01). Immediately behind: TRAIL CREEK DITCH (1882-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.1184 | 1882-06-01 | 1904-04-29 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 62 |
| 16192.14762 | 1890-06-01 | 1904-04-29 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 107 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 323 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 254 AF — 79% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 486 | 14th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 106 | 3.8 |
| 2005 | 417 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 101 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 380 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 92 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 271 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 75 | 2.2 |
| 2008 | 450 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 92 | 3.8 |
| 2009 | 305 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 79 | 3.6 |
| 2010 | 323 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 2.1 |
| 2011 | 289 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 116 | 1.9 |
| 2012 | 83 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 103 | 0.7 |
| 2013 | 457 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 67 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 409 | 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 77 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 117 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 718 | 15th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 72 | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 96 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 99 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 254 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 89 | 1.5 |
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