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JAFFEE WELL NO 5
Structure dossier · WDID 3815063 · 2 · ROARING FORK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:20 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 1987-08-24 — 3021st 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: SMART WELL NO 1 (1987-07-20). Immediately behind: UPPER HENRY POND (1987-10-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50274.0 | 1987-08-24 | 1990-12-31 | 0.119 | 0.0 | C | IRRFIRDOM | |
| 51134.50274 | 1987-08-24 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.238 | C | IRRCOMFIRDOMSTKOTH | |
| 59787.0 | 2013-09-09 | 2013-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRCOMRECFIRDOMSTKAUGOTH | |
| 59787.0 | 2013-09-09 | 2013-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMRECFIRDOMSTKAUGOTH |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
13CW3108, 90CW0139, 08CW0176, 04CW0035.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
13CW3108 | 1 | 2013-12-31 | S |
90CW0139 | 2 | 1990-12-31 | S |
08CW0176 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
04CW0035 | 2 | 1990-12-31 | 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 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 20 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 13 AF — 65% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 1st lowest of 9 · 5% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 25% of median | 334 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 27 | 8th lowest of 9 · 135% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 24 | 7th lowest of 9 · 120% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | 8th lowest of 9 · 135% of median | 366 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 21 | 6th lowest of 9 · 105% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 20 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 14 | 4th lowest of 9 · 70% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 65% of median | 305 | 0.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 9 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 2891 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2016-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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