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RUSSELL BONDS SPRING
Structure dossier · WDID 3000629 · 4 · ANIMAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1945-05-19 — 643rd 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: PRIDE OF THE WEST PL (1940-09-20). Immediately behind: WALLACE SPRING NO 1 (1945-05-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42448.34837 | 1945-05-19 | 1968-05-03 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 68-31 |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1974, came in at 18 AF — 59% of that, and 1st lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 46 | 4th lowest of 4 · 151% of median | 93 | 0.2 |
| 1972 | 31 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 102% of median | 155 | 0.2 |
| 1973 | 30 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 98% of median | 95 | 0.2 |
| 1974 | 18 | 1st lowest of 4 · 59% of median | 120 | 0.2 |
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