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L A BAR RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 3403590 · 3 · CHICKEN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1945-04-01 — 374th most senior of the 495 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: ASPEN GUARD STATION P-L (1939-10-26). Immediately behind: COPPINGER NO 1 RESERVOIR (1949-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34789.0 | 1945-04-01 | 1963-03-22 | 73.33 | 0.0 | A | IRRSTKOTH | R62-16 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 74 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 45 | 6th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 46 | 0.5 |
| 1995 | 136 | 13th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 124 | 0.7 |
| 1996 | 117 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 113 | 0.7 |
| 1997 | 74 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 77 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 133 | 12th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 101 | 0.9 |
| 1999 | 35 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 26 | 0.7 |
| 2000 | 180 | 14th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 172 | 0.9 |
| 2001 | 233 | 15th lowest of 15 · 315% of median | 161 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 28 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 16 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 72 | 1.5 |
| 2004 | 79 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 127 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 24 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 11 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 42 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 58 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 76 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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