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HAVILAND LAKE RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 3003540 · 3 · ELBERT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:38 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 1927-05-01 — 492nd 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: STILWELL-MCKENNA WELL 2 (1925-08-31). Immediately behind: HAVILAND LAKE INLET D (1928-02-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28244.0 | 1927-05-01 | 1966-03-21 | 303.86 | 0.0 | A | FIS | 65-3A |
| 52595.28244 | 1927-05-01 | 1994-12-31 | 222.48 | 0.0 | A | FISWLD |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
94CW0069, CA1751-B.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
94CW0069 | 1 | 1994-12-31 | S |
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 3 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 374 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 4 AF — 1% of that, and 1st lowest of the 2 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 744 | 2nd lowest of 2 · 199% of median | — | 206 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | — | no recorded volume | 37 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 4 | 1st lowest of 2 · 1% of median | — | 13 | 0.2 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 219 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 2% of the irrigation seasons in 1972-2022 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.