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ERNST PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3000542 · 7 · JUNCTION CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:10 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 1939-01-07 — 514th most senior of the 2277 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: ALP TEFT ALTERNATE POINTS OF DIRECT FLOW (1938-09-02). Immediately behind: FERDINANDO PIPELINE (1939-01-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32513.0 | 1939-01-07 | 1966-03-21 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | FIS | 65-38 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA1751-B.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1751-B | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 211 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1974, came in at 211 AF — 100% of that, and 4th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1969 | 270 | 7th lowest of 7 · 128% of median | 273 | 0.5 |
| 1970 | 236 | 5th lowest of 7 · 112% of median | 262 | 0.5 |
| 1971 | 254 | 6th lowest of 7 · 120% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 1972 | 206 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 98% of median | 366 | 0.3 |
| 1973 | 145 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 69% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 1974 | 211 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 304 | 0.6 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1936 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1968-1974 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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