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INDIAN CREEK D
Structure dossier · WDID 3500529 · 1 · SANGRE DE CRISTO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1864-05-01 — 22nd most senior of the 709 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: SMITH RESERVOIR (1863-05-31). Immediately behind: OJITO CREEK D (1864-05-01).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5235.0 | 1864-05-01 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
| 6360.0 | 1867-05-31 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 6528.0 | 1867-11-15 | 1900-11-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 81/2 |
| 7091.0 | 1869-05-31 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 9252.0 | 1875-05-01 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 29 |
| 10743.0 | 1879-05-31 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 34 |
| 13858.0 | 1887-12-10 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 40 |
| 20791.0 | 1906-12-04 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 94 |
| 21140.0 | 1907-11-18 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 671/2 |
| 21376.0 | 1908-07-11 | 1915-01-04 | 75.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 21453.0 | 1908-09-26 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 72 |
| 21509.0 | 1908-11-21 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 74 |
| 22254.0 | 1910-12-06 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80 |
| 22377.0 | 1911-04-08 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 95 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,118 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 278 AF — 25% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1,320 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 89 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 1,376 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 125 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 2,082 | 14th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 250 | 13.0 |
| 1996 | 232 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 46 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 1,118 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 121 | 7.0 |
| 1998 | 1,406 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 73 | 15.1 |
| 1999 | 655 | 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 83 | 7.0 |
| 2000 | 321 | 5th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 56 | 6.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 3,624 | 15th lowest of 15 · 324% of median | 103 | 38.3 |
| 2008 | 1,399 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 88 | 22.1 |
| 2009 | 1,333 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 65 | 26.4 |
| 2010 | 732 | 7th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 91 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 39 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 10 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 278 | 4th lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 57 | 6.4 |
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