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DOWNEY CREEK PL
Structure dossier · WDID 3801905 · 7 · DOWNEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:36 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 1887-05-10 — 370th 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: DOWNEY DITCH NO 2 (1887-05-10). Immediately behind: DOWNEY DITCH NO 3 (1902-04-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22972.13644 | 1887-05-10 | 1913-01-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 75A, 75B |
| 22972.19097 | 1902-04-15 | 1913-01-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 217AAB |
| 24423.16206 | 1894-05-15 | 1916-11-20 | 0.92 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 210AAA-2A |
| 24423.16206 | 1894-05-15 | 1916-11-20 | 0.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 210AAA-2B |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
92CW0192.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
92CW0192 | 5 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 134 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 228 AF — 170% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 183 | 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 134 | 0.9 |
| 2010 | 132 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 107 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 132 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 96 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 196 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 92 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 181 | 11th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 118 | 0.9 |
| 2015 | 157 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 119 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 119 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 96 | 0.9 |
| 2017 | 79 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 77 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 171 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 65 | 1st lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 66 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 91 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 91 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 134 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 75 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 219 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 129 | 2.4 |
| 2023 | 91 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 50 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 228 | 15th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 155 | 0.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1591 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 2005-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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