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Structure dossier · WDID 3900683 · 1 · RIFLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1888-10-27 — 113th 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: EASTVIEW PARK WELL NO 4 (1888-09-24). Immediately behind: O'LEARY WELL NO 2 (1889-08-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14180.0 | 1888-10-27 | 1889-05-11 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143 |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 211 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1959, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 200 | 4th lowest of 9 · 95% of median | 203 | 0.5 |
| 1951 | 191 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 90% of median | 194 | 0.5 |
| 1952 | 327 | 8th lowest of 9 · 155% of median | 166 | 1.0 |
| 1953 | 211 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 214 | 0.5 |
| 1954 | 248 | 7th lowest of 9 · 118% of median | 234 | 0.6 |
| 1955 | 341 | 9th lowest of 9 · 162% of median | 172 | 1.0 |
| 1956 | 234 | 6th lowest of 9 · 111% of median | 238 | 0.5 |
| 1958 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1959 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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