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Structure dossier · WDID 3900510 · 1 · MAIN ELK CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1888-02-05 — 102nd most senior of the 1758 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: BISCUIT RANCH RAYNARD PUMP (1887-07-18). Immediately behind: TROUT DITCH (1888-02-05).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13915.01888-02-051889-05-11 2.00.0 CIRR 123
32959.259951921-03-041943-01-11 2.00.0 CIRR 220H

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 475 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 718 AF — 151% of that, and 13th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 420 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 129 2.8
2011 160 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median 83 1.8
2012 524 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 220 2.1
2013 475 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 180 2.9
2014 460 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 190 1.8
2015 960 15th lowest of 15 · 202% of median 172 3.7
2016 575 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 142 3.0
2017 282 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 149 1.2
2018 165 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median 95 1.3
2019 383 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 121 2.6
2020 601 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 147 2.7
2021 38 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median 33 0.6
2022 485 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 162 2.0
2023 890 14th lowest of 15 · 187% of median 187 3.3
2024 718 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median 180 2.3

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