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Structure dossier · WDID 3800823 · 1 · FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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 1903-05-15 — 325th 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: IRONDALE DITCH (1903-07-10). Immediately behind: VAN CLEVE-FISHER RES (1901-04-27).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21474.19492 | 1903-05-15 | 1908-11-09 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 219BB |
| 21645.19492 | 1903-05-15 | 1909-07-21 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 219BB |
| 30941.25336 | 1919-05-15 | 1936-08-25 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 406C |
| 52229.0 | 1992-12-30 | 1992-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | FISDOMSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 67 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 25 AF — 37% 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 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 31 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 67 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 34 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 24 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 59 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 29 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 191 | 13th lowest of 15 · 285% of median | 78 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 217 | 14th lowest of 15 · 324% of median | 114 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 91 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 58 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 117 | 12th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 56 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 60 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 26 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 72 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 94 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 322 | 15th lowest of 15 · 481% of median | 187 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 40 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 26 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 96 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 40 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 43 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 38 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 25 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 33 | 0.5 |
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