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FRISCO WELL NO 5

Structure dossier · WDID 3605177 · 2 · TENMILE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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 1904-06-23 — 225th 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: FRISCO WELL NO 4 (1904-06-23). Immediately behind: FRISCO WELL NO 6 (1904-06-23).

Decreed rights (2)

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
19897.01904-06-231910-03-02 1.1840.0 CMUNDOM 52
50403.01987-12-312005-12-31 0.00.0 ASNO 52

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 148 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 239 AF — 162% of that, and 12th lowest of the 14 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 43 2nd lowest of 14 · 29% of median 61 1.7
2011 402 14th lowest of 14 · 272% of median 365 2.7
2012 361 13th lowest of 14 · 245% of median 305 2.4
2013 62 4th lowest of 14 · 42% of median 61 2.7
2014 87 5th lowest of 14 · 59% of median 235 0.8
2015 38 1st lowest of 14 · 26% of median 61 1.0
2016 221 10th lowest of 14 · 150% of median 332 1.3
2017 185 9th lowest of 14 · 125% of median 363 1.8
2018 88 6th lowest of 14 · 60% of median 196 0.8
2020 58 3rd lowest of 14 · 39% of median 150 1.3
2021 146 7th lowest of 14 · 99% of median 246 1.4
2022 149 8th lowest of 14 · 101% of median 365 1.4
2023 231 11th lowest of 14 · 157% of median 352 1.6
2024 239 12th lowest of 14 · 162% of median 278 1.3

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