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RUNYAN SPRING NO 1

Structure dossier · WDID 3905248 · 4 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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

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 1971-09-23 — 584th 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: RICHARDSON WELL (1971-04-24). Immediately behind: RUNYAN SPRING NO 2 (1971-09-23).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
44460.01971-09-231971-12-31 0.01790.0 CIRRRECDOMOTH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 43 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 11 AF — 26% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1986 492 15th lowest of 15 · 1144% of median 365 0.8
1987 45 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 365 0.1
1988 45 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 366 0.1
1989 53 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 365 0.1
1990 45 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 365 0.1
1991 43 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.1
1992 45 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 366 0.1
1993 21 6th lowest of 15 · 49% of median 365 0.0
1994 14 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 365 0.0
1995 14 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 365 0.0
1996 15 5th lowest of 15 · 35% of median 366 0.0
1997 36 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 365 0.2
1998 121 14th lowest of 15 · 281% of median 304 0.2
1999 3 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median 365 0.0
2000 11 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median 305 0.0

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