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Structure dossier · WDID 3000548 · 1 · ELBERT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1885-10-18 — 328th 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: KEELER BOWLEN PUMP STA (1885-10-15). Immediately behind: JOHNSON PUMP DIVERSION (1886-05-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13075.01885-10-181923-11-08 0.10.0 CIRRFISFIRDOMSTK E-5
15950.01893-09-011923-11-08 1.00.0 CIRRFISFIRDOMSTK E-7

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 119 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 104 AF — 87% of that, and 6th 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 123 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 344 0.4
2012 67 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 295 0.5
2013 97 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 305 0.5
2014 114 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 339 0.3
2015 265 14th lowest of 15 · 223% of median 336 0.9
2016 133 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 299 0.3
2017 165 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median 359 0.9
2018 119 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 329 0.4
2019 312 15th lowest of 15 · 262% of median 365 1.1
2020 121 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 248 0.5
2021 27 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median 234 0.4
2022 43 2nd lowest of 15 · 36% of median 269 0.2
2023 66 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median 136 0.8
2024 181 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 252 1.2
2025 104 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 253 0.4

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