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Structure dossier · WDID 3500638 · 1 · BARBARA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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 1970-10-20 — 608th 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: W2691 WELL NO 02 (1966-12-31). Immediately behind: W2861 WELL NO 01 (1972-02-22).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44559.44122 | 1970-10-20 | 1972-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 28 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 275 | 10th lowest of 10 · 982% of median | 191 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 37 | 7th lowest of 10 · 132% of median | 190 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 24 | 4th lowest of 10 · 86% of median | 13 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 30 | 6th lowest of 10 · 107% of median | 60 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 44 | 8th lowest of 10 · 157% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 46% of median | 35 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 26 | 5th lowest of 10 · 93% of median | 27 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 74 | 9th lowest of 10 · 264% of median | 142 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 7% of median | 5 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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