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Structure dossier · WDID 3900634 · 1 · PARACHUTE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1913-05-01 — 255th 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: HABERBECK WASTE WATER D (1910-03-03). Immediately behind: C C D DITCH (1914-04-01).

Decreed rights (6)

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
31031.231311913-05-011937-01-04 0.380.0 CIRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH 202
31031.234961914-05-011937-01-04 1.040.0 CIRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH 204
31031.264181922-05-011937-01-04 0.450.0 CIRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH 206
31031.278181926-03-011937-01-04 0.870.0 CIRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH 207F
31031.278181926-03-011937-01-04 2.420.0 CIRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH 207D
31031.278181926-03-011937-01-04 1.050.0 CIRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH 207E

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 139 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1972, came in at 24 AF — 17% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 14 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)
1950 559 12th lowest of 14 · 402% of median 95 3.0
1953 97 5th lowest of 14 · 70% of median 50 1.0
1955 91 4th lowest of 14 · 66% of median 26 2.0
1956 345 9th lowest of 14 · 248% of median 59 3.0
1957 619 13th lowest of 14 · 445% of median 108 3.0
1958 908 14th lowest of 14 · 653% of median 100 5.0
1959 428 11th lowest of 14 · 308% of median 73 3.0
1960 65 3rd lowest of 14 · 47% of median 13 3.0
1962 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 1 0.0
1968 145 8th lowest of 14 · 104% of median 54 2.0
1969 119 6th lowest of 14 · 86% of median 25 3.0
1970 133 7th lowest of 14 · 96% of median 69 1.0
1971 358 10th lowest of 14 · 258% of median 71 3.5
1972 24 2nd lowest of 14 · 17% of median 10 2.0

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