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RIFLE TOWN OF PUMP & PL
Structure dossier · WDID 3900967 · 8 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:44 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 1883-11-05 — 50th 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: RIPPY WELL NO 3 (1883-10-01). Immediately behind: RIFLE POND RIVER INTAKE (1883-11-05).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12362.0 | 1883-11-05 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOM | 16 |
| 32780.0 | 1939-10-01 | 1940-08-15 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOM | DOM15 |
| 36195.0 | 1949-02-05 | 1952-09-05 | 7.5 | 7.5 | C | MUNFIRDOM | 258 |
| 37681.31563 | 1936-06-01 | 1965-07-09 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNDOM | 241 |
| 48197.0 | 1981-12-16 | 1981-12-31 | 0.0 | 23.1 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMPWRWLD |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
81CW0437, 81CW0173, W3388, W3389.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
81CW0437 | 1 | 1981-12-31 | S |
81CW0173 | 1 | 1965-07-09 | S |
W3388 | 3 | 1952-09-05 | S |
W3389 | 1 | 1889-05-11 | O |
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 1,595 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,686 AF — 106% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1,595 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 1,600 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 304 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 150 | 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 61 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 1,591 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 1,484 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 365 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 1,434 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 365 | 5.5 |
| 2016 | 1,489 | 4th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 366 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 1,684 | 12th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 365 | 11.2 |
| 2018 | 1,752 | 14th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 365 | 5.9 |
| 2019 | 1,521 | 5th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 365 | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 1,755 | 15th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 366 | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 1,641 | 11th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 365 | 5.4 |
| 2022 | 1,523 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 365 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 1,624 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 365 | 5.2 |
| 2024 | 1,686 | 13th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 305 | 6.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 10835 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 92% of the irrigation seasons in 1969-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.