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ELK CREEK NO 2 D CAP CR
Structure dossier · WDID 3801579 · 1 · CAPITOL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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 1945-10-18 — 688th 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: ELK CREEK NO 1 DITCH (1945-10-18). Immediately behind: DELCON SPRING AND PL (1945-11-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34989.0 | 1945-10-18 | 1949-08-25 | 0.82 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 476 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 19 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 34 AF — 179% of that, and 13th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 15 | 4th lowest of 13 · 79% of median | 15 | 0.6 |
| 1990 | 22 | 9th lowest of 13 · 116% of median | 28 | 0.4 |
| 1992 | 14 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 74% of median | 11 | 0.7 |
| 1993 | 24 | 10th lowest of 13 · 126% of median | 21 | 0.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 63% of median | 14 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | 1st lowest of 13 · 58% of median | 10 | 0.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | 4th lowest of 13 · 79% of median | 15 | 0.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | 11th lowest of 13 · 132% of median | 15 | 0.9 |
| 2006 | 21 | 8th lowest of 13 · 110% of median | 16 | 0.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 28 | 0.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | 6th lowest of 13 · 84% of median | 10 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 30 | 12th lowest of 13 · 158% of median | 28 | 0.8 |
| 2014 | 34 | 13th lowest of 13 · 179% of median | 21 | 0.9 |
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