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Structure dossier · WDID 3801146 · 1 · DOWNEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:10 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 1894-05-15 — 380th 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: MCCARTHY WWD & UPPER EXT (1895-05-13). Immediately behind: VON SPRINGS RESERVOIR 1 (1898-07-15).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24423.16206 | 1894-05-15 | 1916-11-20 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 210AAA-2 |
| 24423.16206 | 1894-05-15 | 1916-11-20 | 0.52 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 210AAA-3 |
| 37552.18058 | 1899-06-10 | 1958-06-20 | 11.24 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 643 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA4613, 92CW0192.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4613 | 1 | 1958-06-20 | S |
92CW0192 | 2 | 1916-11-20 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 586 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2011, came in at 1,108 AF — 189% of that, and 7th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 24 | 1st lowest of 7 · 4% of median | 2 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 571 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 97% of median | 106 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 252 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 43% of median | 103 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 757 | 5th lowest of 7 · 129% of median | 197 | 13.3 |
| 2006 | 586 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 108 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 890 | 6th lowest of 7 · 152% of median | 81 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 1,108 | 7th lowest of 7 · 189% of median | 90 | 10.0 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 687 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 9% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2011 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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