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Structure dossier · WDID 4000583 · 1 · ALUM GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:17 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 1894-04-01 — 1386th most senior of the 4661 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: HOLY TERROR RES (1893-09-11). Immediately behind: COMBINATION DITCH (1894-04-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25807.16162 | 1894-04-01 | 1930-02-10 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G19 |
| 25807.19083 | 1902-04-01 | 1930-02-10 | 1.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G33 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA2030.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2030 | 2 | 1930-02-10 | 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 689 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1985, came in at 1,126 AF — 163% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 226 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 175 | 0.8 |
| 1972 | 534 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 177 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 554 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 177 | 2.0 |
| 1974 | 466 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 186 | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 689 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 185 | 2.5 |
| 1976 | 607 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 177 | 2.5 |
| 1977 | 249 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 194 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 704 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 194 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 834 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 183 | 7.0 |
| 1980 | 761 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 180 | 3.8 |
| 1981 | 610 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 194 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 909 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 182 | 4.5 |
| 1983 | 1,325 | 15th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 183 | 5.5 |
| 1984 | 1,214 | 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 150 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 1,126 | 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 177 | 5.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+58 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.000).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2714 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 87% of the irrigation seasons in 1971-1985 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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