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DOW MIDDLE FK PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3900708 · 7 · SCHUTTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1883-05-17 — 22nd 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: DOW E MIDDLE FORK PL (1883-05-17). Immediately behind: DOW PUMPING PLANT AND PIPELINE (1883-05-17).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12190.0 | 1883-05-17 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMPWR | 9 |
| 12474.0 | 1884-02-25 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMPWR | 20 |
| 13181.0 | 1886-02-01 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMPWR | 51 |
| 13639.0 | 1887-05-05 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMPWR | 111 |
| 14092.0 | 1888-07-31 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMPWR | 142 |
| 15120.0 | 1891-05-25 | 1891-11-27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMPWR | 148 |
| 38278.0 | 1954-10-20 | 1966-11-10 | 8.912 | 1.088 | C | COMINDDOMPWRTMX | 318 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,213 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1968, came in at 1,000 AF — 82% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 670 | 1st lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 170 | 2.0 |
| 1955 | 881 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 149 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 1,214 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 212 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 678 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 115 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 1,148 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 195 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 1,545 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 230 | 7.0 |
| 1960 | 910 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 153 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 1,333 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 193 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 1,565 | 14th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 198 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 2,128 | 15th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 200 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 1,213 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 239 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 1,540 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 260 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 1,440 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 227 | 5.0 |
| 1967 | 949 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 172 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 1,000 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 113 | 10.0 |
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