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Structure dossier · WDID 3800822 · 1 · FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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 1886-05-15 — 204th 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: KELLY W W DITCH (1886-05-15). Immediately behind: FAVRE HIGHLINE DITCH (1886-05-16).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13284.0 | 1886-05-15 | 1890-04-18 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 149A |
| 13666.0 | 1887-06-01 | 1890-04-18 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 179A |
| 30941.25336 | 1919-05-15 | 1936-08-25 | 5.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 406D |
| 37552.37477 | 1952-08-10 | 1958-06-20 | 3.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 690 |
| 42467.0 | 1966-04-09 | 1971-11-05 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | OTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 182 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 74 AF — 41% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 311 | 14th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 153 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 259 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 107 | 2.4 |
| 2012 | 195 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 60 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 216 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 58 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 105 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 60 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 389 | 15th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 182 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 175 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 121 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 130 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 94 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 94 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 62 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 212 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 119 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 147 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 52 | 2.6 |
| 2021 | 182 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 52 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 252 | 12th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 82 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 161 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 51 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 74 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 51 | 1.0 |
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