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Structure dossier · WDID 3703522 · 3 · EBY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:13 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 1903-11-30 — 329th 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: OLESEN DITCH (1903-11-30). Immediately behind: JONES CASTLE CREEK POND (1903-11-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25375.19691 | 1903-11-30 | 1919-11-10 | 301.785 | 0.0 | A | IRR | RES5 |
| 48212.31776 | 1936-12-31 | 1982-12-31 | 302.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRSTK |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
92CW0112, 82CW0164, CA0722.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
92CW0112 | 3 | 1982-12-31 | S |
82CW0164 | 2 | 1982-12-31 | S |
CA0722 | 1 | 1919-11-10 | 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 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 164 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1990, came in at 149 AF — 91% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 6 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 1% of median | — | 2 | 1.1 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 179 | 4th lowest of 6 · 109% of median | 179 | 46 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 298 | 5th lowest of 6 · 182% of median | 278 | 46 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 508 | 6th lowest of 6 · 310% of median | — | 66 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 149 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 91% of median | — | 26 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 69 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 221 | 0 | — |
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 187 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 1% of the irrigation seasons in 1958-2022 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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