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BLUE VALLEY RANCH HYDRO

Structure dossier · WDID 3600985 · 1 · BLUE RIVER · 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 1981-03-09 — 711th 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: PEBBLE CR RANCH WELL 19 (1980-09-09). Immediately behind: PEBBLE CR RANCH WELL 02 (1981-05-21).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
48212.479151981-03-091982-12-31 129.00.0 CRECFISPWR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 34,332 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 31,692 AF — 92% of that, and 5th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 66,473 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 365 129.0
2011 63,171 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 365 129.0
2012 32,598 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 336 113.3
2013 55,930 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median 363 170.4
2014 52,771 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median 365 89.7
2015 41,879 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 365 73.1
2016 38,200 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 366 64.0
2017 37,552 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 365 65.0
2018 31,398 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 365 67.2
2019 32,558 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 365 67.6
2020 30,951 3rd lowest of 15 · 90% of median 366 53.0
2021 19,514 1st lowest of 15 · 57% of median 365 50.0
2022 23,280 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 365 50.0
2023 34,332 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 63.0
2024 31,692 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 305 63.0

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.