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Structure dossier · WDID 3900692 · 1 · PARACHUTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1901-08-14 — 187th 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: TIBBITS STOCK WELL (1910-07-31). Immediately behind: SAVAGE RIFLE CK WELL NO1 (1910-12-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22232.18853 | 1901-08-14 | 1910-11-22 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | |
| 33978.33874 | 1942-09-29 | 1952-09-05 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 233 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 119 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1996, came in at 29 AF — 24% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 128 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 58 | 1.5 |
| 1954 | 204 | 11th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 104 | 1.0 |
| 1955 | 204 | 11th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 104 | 1.0 |
| 1956 | 161 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 82 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 563 | 14th lowest of 15 · 473% of median | 143 | 2.0 |
| 1958 | 645 | 15th lowest of 15 · 542% of median | 109 | 4.0 |
| 1961 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1962 | 325 | 13th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 93 | 2.0 |
| 1965 | 84 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 67 | 1.0 |
| 1966 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1967 | 91 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 31 | 2.0 |
| 1968 | 37 | 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 45 | 5th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 38 | 1.5 |
| 1973 | 119 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 29 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 26 | 1.0 |
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