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PITKIN PIPELINE NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 2801566 · 7 · QUARTZ CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1948-08-05 — 822nd 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: PITKIN PIPELINE NO 5 (1947-08-08). Immediately behind: SHARON SPRING PIPELINE (1957-08-15).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44194.36011 | 1948-08-05 | 1971-12-31 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | FIS |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 473 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 486 AF — 103% 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 | 34 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 61 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 391 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 366 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 308 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 361 | 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 365 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 692 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 365 | 10.5 |
| 2016 | 635 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 366 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 476 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 365 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 362 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 365 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 467 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 365 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 195 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 366 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 473 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 1,377 | 15th lowest of 15 · 291% of median | 365 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 1,362 | 14th lowest of 15 · 288% of median | 365 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 1,017 | 13th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 366 | 4.2 |
| 2025 | 486 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 304 | 2.4 |
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