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GLENWOOD SPRINGS PL NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 3900572 · 7 · MITCHELL CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 1905-12-26 — 331st 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: GLENWOOD SPRINGS PL NO 2 (1905-12-26). Immediately behind: GLENWOOD SPRINGS PL NO 4 (1905-12-26).

Decreed rights (1)

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
37503.204481905-12-261966-11-10 1.80.0 CFIS 273

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 109 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 65 AF — 60% of that, and 5th 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)
1987 91 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 61 0.8
1988 465 15th lowest of 15 · 427% of median 305 0.9
1995 24 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 61 0.2
1996 384 12th lowest of 15 · 352% of median 366 1.2
1997 385 13th lowest of 15 · 353% of median 365 1.2
1998 395 14th lowest of 15 · 362% of median 365 1.2
1999 148 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 304 0.3
2013 29 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median 61 0.3
2014 140 9th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 304 0.3
2016 24 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 61 0.2
2017 149 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 365 0.3
2018 100 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 365 0.2
2019 109 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 304 0.3
2020 12 1st lowest of 15 · 11% of median 61 0.1
2021 65 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median 304 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.