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Structure dossier · WDID 3800821 · 1 · CAPITOL CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1883-07-04 — 302nd most senior of the 4788 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: POWELL MCKENZIE DITCH (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: ATKINSON CANAL (1884-12-20).

Decreed rights (1)

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
19720.122381883-07-041904-03-18 1.40.0 CIRR 72A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 516 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2003, came in at 666 AF — 129% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 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)
1979 303 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 153 1.0
1980 1,517 15th lowest of 15 · 294% of median 153 5.0
1981 869 11th lowest of 15 · 168% of median 74 6.0
1982 845 10th lowest of 15 · 164% of median 72 6.0
1983 1,083 12th lowest of 15 · 210% of median 92 6.0
1984 1,297 13th lowest of 15 · 251% of median 110 6.0
1985 1,297 13th lowest of 15 · 251% of median 110 6.0
1988 56 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 22 1.4
1993 516 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 131 2.0
1994 293 6th lowest of 15 · 57% of median 117 2.0
1995 86 4th lowest of 15 · 17% of median 33 1.4
1996 53 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median 20 1.4
1997 48 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median 17 1.5
2000 139 5th lowest of 15 · 27% of median 55 1.4
2003 666 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 169 2.0

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