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RITO BLANCO POND DIVR

Structure dossier · WDID 2900950 · 1 · RITO BLANCO · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1887-04-15 — 92nd most senior of the 853 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: MEES PUMP (1887-04-15). Immediately behind: K O HARMAN DITCH NO 1 (1887-05-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13619.01887-04-151902-01-20 0.00.0 CSTOIRRFISFIRSTK #25, #7

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 151 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 83 AF — 55% of that, and 3rd 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 173 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 172 1.0
2012 217 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 181 1.1
2013 264 15th lowest of 15 · 175% of median 200 1.4
2014 168 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 194 1.0
2015 242 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median 208 0.8
2016 124 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 140 0.8
2017 183 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 171 1.0
2018 158 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 189 0.8
2019 66 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median 88 0.6
2020 120 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 156 0.8
2021 111 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 172 0.8
2022 151 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 166 1.2
2023 41 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median 30 0.8
2024 118 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 127 1.1
2025 83 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median 124 1.4

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.