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COPPER MTN WHEELER GULCH PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3601087 · 7 · WEST TENMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1941-03-10 — 388th 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: COPPER MTN WEST LAKE PIPELINE 2 (1941-03-10). Immediately behind: COPPER MTN BEELER LAKE PIPELINE (1941-03-10).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33306.0 | 1941-03-10 | 1952-03-10 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 353 |
| 50109.0 | 1987-03-12 | 1982-12-31 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | RCH | |
| 60994.0 | 2016-12-29 | 2016-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | SNO | |
| 60994.0 | 2016-12-29 | 2016-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | SNO |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 644 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 608 AF — 94% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 142 | 1st lowest of 10 · 22% of median | 61 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 798 | 7th lowest of 10 · 124% of median | 366 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 809 | 8th lowest of 10 · 126% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 595 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 92% of median | 365 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 830 | 9th lowest of 10 · 129% of median | 365 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 841 | 10th lowest of 10 · 131% of median | 366 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 665 | 6th lowest of 10 · 103% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 622 | 5th lowest of 10 · 97% of median | 365 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 490 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 76% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 608 | 4th lowest of 10 · 94% of median | 305 | 3.2 |
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