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PALMER SPRING
Structure dossier · WDID 3500660 · 4 · TRINCHERA 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 1887-07-31 — 646th 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: CALDWELL SPRING NO 2 (1887-07-31). Immediately behind: URACCA CREEK DIVERSION (1982-09-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48212.13726 | 1887-07-31 | 1982-12-31 | 0.033 | 0.0 | C | DOM |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 27 | 11th lowest of 11 · 386% of median | 135 | 0.1 |
| 1991 | 26 | 10th lowest of 11 · 371% of median | 66 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | 9th lowest of 11 · 343% of median | 38 | 0.3 |
| 1993 | 5 | 4th lowest of 11 · 71% of median | 208 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | 8th lowest of 11 · 229% of median | 26 | 0.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | 5th lowest of 11 · 86% of median | 106 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 57% of median | 64 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 29% of median | 37 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 113 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | 7th lowest of 11 · 186% of median | 195 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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