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OJITO CREEK D
Structure dossier · WDID 3500563 · 1 · OJITO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:38 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 — 23rd 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: INDIAN CREEK D (1864-05-01). Immediately behind: OJITO CREEK D 1 (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 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 671/2 |
| 21376.0 | 1908-07-11 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 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 |
Legal record & documents
16 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W3148, CA1295, 01/04/1915.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3148 | 14 | 1915-01-04 | O, S |
CA1295 | 1 | 1915-01-04 | S |
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 310 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 962 | 15th lowest of 15 · 310% of median | 133 | 200.0 |
| 1954 | 310 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 215 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 563 | 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 215 | 5.0 |
| 1956 | 133 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 92 | 1.5 |
| 1957 | 618 | 13th lowest of 15 · 199% of median | 214 | 10.0 |
| 1958 | 527 | 11th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 215 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 277 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 215 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 356 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 210 | 2.0 |
| 1961 | 663 | 14th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 215 | 5.0 |
| 1962 | 248 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 128 | 2.0 |
| 1965 | 89 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 52 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 27 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 179 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 79 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 474 | 10th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 72 | 7.0 |
| 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 (-11 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.023).
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 | 14 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2250 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 15% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2021 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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