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Structure dossier · WDID 3801071 · 1 · THREEMILE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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 1898-05-01 — 331st 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: FRIELER DITCH, CHRISTINE ENLRG (1905-09-04). Immediately behind: REYNOLDS DITCH (1903-07-19).

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
21521.176531898-05-011908-12-04 0.060.0 CIRRDOM 212AA

Recorded use (last 13 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 43 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1994, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 13 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)
1963 10 2nd lowest of 13 · 23% of median 50 0.1
1975 59 10th lowest of 13 · 137% of median 149 0.2
1976 36 6th lowest of 13 · 84% of median 184 0.1
1977 22 5th lowest of 13 · 51% of median 184 0.1
1978 18 3rd lowest of 13 · 42% of median 153 0.1
1979 18 3rd lowest of 13 · 42% of median 153 0.1
1980 61 11th lowest of 13 · 142% of median 153 0.2
1981 48 8th lowest of 13 · 112% of median 122 0.2
1982 48 8th lowest of 13 · 112% of median 121 0.2
1983 61 11th lowest of 13 · 142% of median 153 0.2
1984 67 13th lowest of 13 · 156% of median 170 0.2
1985 43 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median 110 0.2
1994 0 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median 1 0.0

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