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RIFLE MILL PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3900865 · 7 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1924-03-09 — 345th 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: U S V RIFLE SLUICING PMP (1924-03-09). Immediately behind: CLOUGH NO 2 STOCKWATER D (1929-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37503.27096 | 1924-03-09 | 1966-11-10 | 4.307 | 0.0 | C | INDFIRDOM | 292 |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 100 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1996, came in at 8 AF — 8% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 100 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 154 | 0.3 |
| 1986 | 99 | 5th lowest of 11 · 99% of median | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1987 | 120 | 7th lowest of 11 · 120% of median | 184 | 0.3 |
| 1988 | 97 | 4th lowest of 11 · 97% of median | 159 | 0.3 |
| 1989 | 185 | 9th lowest of 11 · 185% of median | 157 | 6.0 |
| 1990 | 257 | 10th lowest of 11 · 257% of median | 144 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 87 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 87% of median | 112 | 0.6 |
| 1992 | 272 | 11th lowest of 11 · 272% of median | 127 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 131 | 8th lowest of 11 · 131% of median | 214 | 0.5 |
| 1994 | 82 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 82% of median | 245 | 0.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | 1st lowest of 11 · 8% of median | 229 | 0.0 |
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