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BRECKENRIDGE SKI AREA PUMP PLANT & PIPEL
Structure dossier · WDID 3601044 · 7 · BLUE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:30 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 1979-01-15 — 660th 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: BRECKENRIDGE PIPELINE - AP (1979-01-15). Immediately behind: BRECKENRIDGE PIPELINE ENLARGEMENT AP - N (1979-01-15).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47481.47131 | 1979-01-15 | 1980-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | SNO | |
| 50038.48023 | 1981-06-25 | 1987-12-31 | 307.0 | 0.0 | A | SNO | |
| 50038.48023 | 1981-06-25 | 1987-12-31 | 11.8 | 2.2 | C | SNO | |
| 62638.0 | 2021-06-30 | 1972-05-30 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | SNO | |
| 62638.0 | 2021-06-30 | 1972-05-30 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | SNO |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
81CW0003, 17CW3120, 10CW0243, 84CW0289, 21CW3090, 92CW0293.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
81CW0003 | 2 | 1987-12-31 | S |
17CW3120 | 1 | 1987-12-31 | S |
10CW0243 | 1 | 1987-12-31 | S |
84CW0289 | 3 | 1980-12-31 | S |
21CW3090 | 1 | 1972-05-30 | O |
92CW0293 | 2 | 1910-03-02 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 662 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 48 AF — 7% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 661 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 61 | 9.8 |
| 2014 | 468 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 71% of median | 53 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 662 | 7th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 72 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 574 | 4th lowest of 12 · 87% of median | 85 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 740 | 10th lowest of 12 · 112% of median | 100 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 713 | 9th lowest of 12 · 108% of median | 83 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 767 | 11th lowest of 12 · 116% of median | 74 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 669 | 8th lowest of 12 · 101% of median | 86 | 10.5 |
| 2021 | 625 | 5th lowest of 12 · 94% of median | 75 | 9.5 |
| 2022 | 806 | 12th lowest of 12 · 122% of median | 122 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 551 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 83% of median | 92 | 9.1 |
| 2024 | 48 | 1st lowest of 12 · 7% of median | 12 | 8.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 915 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 39% of the irrigation seasons in 2013-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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