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COPPER MTN TENMILE CR PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3601088 · 7 · TENMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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 1981-10-22 — 733rd 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: SNAKE RIVER WATER DISTRICT SUPPLEMENTAL (1981-07-28). Immediately behind: COPPER MTN UNION BOWL WELL1 (1981-12-22).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48212.48142 | 1981-10-22 | 1982-12-31 | 3.98 | 0.0 | C | IRRSNORCH | |
| 54383.0 | 1998-11-23 | 1998-12-31 | 3.96 | 3.54 | C | SNO | |
| 58439.56094 | 2003-07-31 | 2010-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRSNO | |
| 58439.56094 | 2003-07-31 | 2010-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSNO | |
| 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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 484 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 135 AF — 28% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 196 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 40% of median | 48 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 473 | 5th lowest of 11 · 98% of median | 190 | 7.7 |
| 2016 | 440 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 91% of median | 96 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 484 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 245 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 516 | 7th lowest of 11 · 107% of median | 365 | 6.5 |
| 2019 | 457 | 4th lowest of 11 · 94% of median | 245 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 624 | 11th lowest of 11 · 129% of median | 245 | 6.6 |
| 2021 | 542 | 10th lowest of 11 · 112% of median | 365 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 539 | 9th lowest of 11 · 111% of median | 260 | 6.5 |
| 2023 | 523 | 8th lowest of 11 · 108% of median | 365 | 6.6 |
| 2024 | 135 | 1st lowest of 11 · 28% of median | 305 | 5.5 |
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