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EMPIRE ZINC CO PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3700590 · 7 · FALL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:16 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 1911-08-05 — 334th most senior of the 2162 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: EMPIRE ZINC CO PIPELINE (1886-05-15). Immediately behind: DUNNINGTON DITCH (1905-04-20).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26112.22496 | 1911-08-05 | 1922-01-16 | 4.1 | 0.0 | C | COMINDDOM | DOM12 |
| 26614.25902 | 1920-12-01 | 1923-10-30 | 11.9 | 0.0 | C | COMINDDOM | DOM13 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1343, CA0774.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1343 | 4 | 1923-10-30 | S |
CA0774 | 2 | 1923-10-30 | S |
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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,374 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1985, came in at 0 AF — 0% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 109 | 4th lowest of 11 · 3% of median | 61 | 0.9 |
| 1974 | 3,374 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 365 | 23.4 |
| 1975 | 16,941 | 9th lowest of 11 · 502% of median | 365 | 23.4 |
| 1976 | 16,987 | 11th lowest of 11 · 504% of median | 366 | 23.4 |
| 1977 | 14,110 | 7th lowest of 11 · 418% of median | 304 | 23.4 |
| 1978 | 2,831 | 5th lowest of 11 · 84% of median | 62 | 23.4 |
| 1979 | 16,941 | 9th lowest of 11 · 502% of median | 365 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 14,156 | 8th lowest of 11 · 420% of median | 305 | 23.4 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 11 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2197 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 87% of the irrigation seasons in 1973-1985 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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