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OWNERS WELL NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 3605070 · 2 · SNAKE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:55 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 1899-10-11 — 178th 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: OWNERS WELL NO 2 (1899-10-11). Immediately behind: OWNERS WELL NO 4 (1899-10-11).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18181.0 | 1899-10-11 | 1910-03-02 | 0.025 | 0.0 | C | IRRFIRDOM | 37 |
| 32075.25333 | 1919-05-12 | 1952-03-10 | 0.1253 | 0.0 | C | MUNRECDOM | |
| 48563.0 | 1982-12-17 | 1982-12-31 | 0.0 | 1.6575 | C | MUNRECDOM | |
| 59305.0 | 2012-05-15 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMRECFIRDOM | |
| 59305.0 | 2012-05-15 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECFIRDOM |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
12CW0175, 82CW0430, W1805, W1803, 84CW0279.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
12CW0175 | 1 | 2012-12-31 | O |
82CW0430 | 2 | 1982-12-31 | S |
W1805 | 1 | 1952-03-10 | S |
W1803 | 1 | 1952-03-10 | S |
84CW0279 | 1 | 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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 154 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 70 AF — 46% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 265 | 6th lowest of 7 · 172% of median | 130 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 390 | 7th lowest of 7 · 253% of median | 334 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 193 | 5th lowest of 7 · 125% of median | 210 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | 1st lowest of 7 · 6% of median | 27 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 154 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 133 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 78 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 51% of median | 70 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 70 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 46% of median | 53 | 1.1 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 957 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 71% of the irrigation seasons in 2018-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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