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Structure dossier · WDID 3700863 · 1 · GYPSUM CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:23 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 1899-06-01 — 210th 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: MRS PAYE DITCH (1899-05-03). Immediately behind: SUNDELL DITCH NO 2 (1899-06-25).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18049.0 | 1899-06-01 | 1901-03-05 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 191 |
| 20672.0 | 1906-08-07 | 1907-06-04 | 0.16 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 262 |
| 23802.2374 | 1914-12-31 | 1915-06-07 | 1.21 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 191EX, 261 |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
W2384, CA0294, 84CW0388, CA0385.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2384 | 4 | 1915-06-07 | S |
CA0294 | 1 | 1915-06-07 | S |
84CW0388 | 2 | 1915-06-07 | S |
CA0385 | 1 | 1901-03-05 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 39 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 68 AF — 174% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 121 | 13th lowest of 15 · 310% of median | 142 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 29 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 47 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 11 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 25 | 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 32 | 0.4 |
| 2004 | 67 | 9th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 392 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1005% of median | 153 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 68 | 10th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 70 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 133 | 14th lowest of 15 · 341% of median | 135 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 39 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 77 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 20 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 111 | 12th lowest of 15 · 285% of median | 128 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 19 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 7 | 0.7 |
| 2022 | 68 | 10th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 50 | 0.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2964 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 19% of the irrigation seasons in 1951-2022 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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