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PATERSON D JACOB EXT
Structure dossier · WDID 3800930 · 1 · ROARING FORK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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 1966-05-03 — 1543rd 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: MARTIN FEEDER DITCH EXT (1966-04-09). Immediately behind: PATERSON D JACOB EXT SPG (1966-05-03).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42491.0 | 1966-05-03 | 1971-11-05 | 63.0 | 0.0 | C | COMRECFISDOMOTH | 835 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 69,309 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 65,513 AF — 94% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 70,362 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 365 | 108.8 |
| 2010 | 58,375 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 304 | 108.8 |
| 2012 | 59,758 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 305 | 121.4 |
| 2013 | 11,942 | 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 61 | 103.9 |
| 2014 | 74,072 | 13th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 365 | 129.3 |
| 2015 | 66,771 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 365 | 105.6 |
| 2016 | 68,677 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 366 | 107.6 |
| 2017 | 71,502 | 11th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 365 | 115.1 |
| 2018 | 70,615 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 365 | 115.1 |
| 2019 | 72,964 | 12th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 365 | 121.4 |
| 2020 | 90,882 | 15th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 366 | 218.1 |
| 2021 | 69,309 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 108.8 |
| 2022 | 75,937 | 14th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 365 | 134.6 |
| 2023 | 62,451 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 365 | 108.8 |
| 2024 | 65,513 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 305 | 121.0 |
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