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Structure dossier · WDID 3500543 · 1 · NORTH ZAPATA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1873-04-01 — 36th 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: NEWTON 2-MILL APD (1867-05-01). Immediately behind: NORTH ZAPATA CREEK PIPELINE (1873-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8492.0 | 1873-04-01 | 1895-03-26 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECDOMAUGRCH | 1A |
| 13270.0 | 1886-05-01 | 1895-03-26 | 19.66 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 11A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 946 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1988, came in at 990 AF — 105% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 2,511 | 15th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 150 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 797 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 163 | 7.0 |
| 1976 | 182 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 40 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 520 | 4th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 85 | 4.0 |
| 1978 | 496 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 166 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 1,091 | 12th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 98 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 952 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 122 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 498 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 140 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 946 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 151 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 1,293 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 183 | 10.0 |
| 1984 | 794 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 154 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 978 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 154 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 740 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 101 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 1,436 | 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 178 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 990 | 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 187 | 6.0 |
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