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DURAND SPRING & PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3900711 · 4 · GOVERNMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:06 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 1913-05-15 — 203rd 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: HELM DITCH (1910-04-17). Immediately behind: JOHN ROLLETTO NO 1 DITCH (1905-10-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23334.23145 | 1913-05-15 | 1913-12-08 | 0.06 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W2199, CA1676.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2199 | 2 | 1913-12-08 | S |
CA1676 | 1 | 1913-12-08 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 525 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1965, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 986 | 14th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 177 | 6.0 |
| 1952 | 563 | 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 152 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 504 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 209 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 538 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 152 | 2.0 |
| 1955 | 769 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 202 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 1,273 | 15th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 324 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 246 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 62 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 598 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 172 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 262 | 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 90 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 462 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 163 | 2.0 |
| 1961 | 540 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 141 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 525 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 113 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 246 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 55 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 415 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 83 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-40 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.020).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2308 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 71% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-1965 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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