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UTE CREEK NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 3600850 · 1 · SQUAW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1880-06-05 — 29th most senior of the 1247 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: UTE CREEK NO 1 (1880-06-01). Immediately behind: LUSHER DITCH - DOT PLACER (1880-07-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11114.0 | 1880-06-05 | 1910-03-02 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 296 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2007, came in at 69 AF — 23% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 353 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 45 | 9.4 |
| 1994 | 481 | 12th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 64 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 296 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 35 | 5.0 |
| 1996 | 170 | 7th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 43 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 923 | 15th lowest of 15 · 312% of median | 59 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 159 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 48 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 431 | 11th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 66 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 759 | 13th lowest of 15 · 256% of median | 84 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 398 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 72 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 855 | 14th lowest of 15 · 289% of median | 53 | 9.9 |
| 2003 | 18 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 10 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 8 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 48 | 4th lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 40 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 69 | 5th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
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