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Structure dossier · WDID 3801777 · 1 · RAPID CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:52 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 1887-06-15 — 295th 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: DARIEN PIPELINE NO 1 (1887-06-15). Immediately behind: HAWK PUMP (1901-04-26).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19684.1368 | 1887-06-15 | 1903-12-28 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMOTH | 180A |
| 54405.0 | 1998-12-15 | 1998-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | AUG |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,095 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 1,116 AF — 102% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 793 | 4th lowest of 13 · 72% of median | 126 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 743 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 68% of median | 118 | 3.2 |
| 1998 | 660 | 1st lowest of 13 · 60% of median | 105 | 3.2 |
| 1999 | 1,099 | 8th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 163 | 4.0 |
| 2000 | 1,148 | 10th lowest of 13 · 105% of median | 194 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 1,041 | 6th lowest of 13 · 95% of median | 176 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 781 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 71% of median | 124 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 812 | 5th lowest of 13 · 74% of median | 129 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 1,957 | 13th lowest of 13 · 179% of median | 159 | 8.2 |
| 2018 | 1,222 | 11th lowest of 13 · 112% of median | 136 | 6.0 |
| 2019 | 1,095 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 93 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 1,301 | 12th lowest of 13 · 119% of median | 147 | 6.0 |
| 2021 | 1,116 | 9th lowest of 13 · 102% of median | 135 | 4.2 |
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