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MEDANO SAND CR D
Structure dossier · WDID 3500541 · 1 · SAND CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:07 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 1908-07-01 — 83rd 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: SUPPLY D 4 (1908-04-05). Immediately behind: ZAPATO D 3 (1909-02-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21366.0 | 1908-07-01 | 1915-01-04 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 69 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
01/04/1915.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
01/04/1915 | 1 | 1915-01-04 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 805 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 5,246 | 15th lowest of 15 · 652% of median | 83 | 45.0 |
| 1970 | 805 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 29 | 25.0 |
| 1973 | 1,359 | 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 63 | 20.0 |
| 1975 | 2,559 | 14th lowest of 15 · 318% of median | 62 | 30.0 |
| 1982 | 294 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 38 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 1,051 | 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 54 | 10.0 |
| 1984 | 1,031 | 9th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 14 | 40.0 |
| 1985 | 555 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 29 | 10.0 |
| 1986 | 694 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 36 | 10.0 |
| 1987 | 1,706 | 13th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 59 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 446 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 16 | 15.0 |
| 1998 | 1,034 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 102 | 8.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-44 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.008).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 599 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 4% of the irrigation seasons in 1952-2021 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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