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SOUTH D 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3500575 · 1 · LITTLE SPRING 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 1880-06-01 — 50th 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: SHADY RETREAT D (1879-04-01). Immediately behind: LITTLE FRANKIE D (1881-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11110.0 | 1880-06-01 | 1895-03-26 | 13.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 260 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 656 | 14th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 188 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 1,209 | 15th lowest of 15 · 465% of median | 195 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 409 | 11th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 206 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 238 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 194 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 234 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 85 | 3.5 |
| 1994 | 385 | 10th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 126 | 2.0 |
| 1995 | 548 | 13th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 182 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 251 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 187 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 426 | 12th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 199 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 302 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 224 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 260 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 77 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 207 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 218 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 116 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 150 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 202 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 205 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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