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Structure dossier · WDID 3801870 · 1 · DRY WOODY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 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 1988-04-10 — 3065th 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: BIG SKY POND NO 3 (1988-02-17). Immediately behind: LISA WELL (1988-05-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50504.0 | 1988-04-10 | 1988-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 50769.42489 | 1966-05-01 | 1989-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 50891.0 | 1989-05-02 | 1989-12-31 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | RECFISSTK |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 184 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 78 AF — 42% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 698 | 14th lowest of 14 · 380% of median | 174 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 233 | 9th lowest of 14 · 127% of median | 61 | 2.5 |
| 1995 | 283 | 10th lowest of 14 · 154% of median | 74 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 294 | 11th lowest of 14 · 160% of median | 75 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 313 | 12th lowest of 14 · 171% of median | 80 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 313 | 12th lowest of 14 · 171% of median | 80 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 208 | 8th lowest of 14 · 113% of median | 73 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1st lowest of 14 · 13% of median | 68 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 112 | 5th lowest of 14 · 61% of median | 182 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 116 | 6th lowest of 14 · 63% of median | 222 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 159 | 7th lowest of 14 · 87% of median | 193 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 17% of median | 49 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 102 | 4th lowest of 14 · 56% of median | 181 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 78 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 42% of median | 200 | 0.2 |
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