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Structure dossier · WDID 4000714 · 1 · WARD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1904-07-01 — 1561st 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: 25 MESA UP LIT MONITOR D (1904-06-01). Immediately behind: LITTLE GIANT NO 2 RES (1904-09-07).

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
29260.199051904-07-011937-05-28 2.00.0 CIRR H50

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 65 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 60 AF — 92% of that, and 7th 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)
2010 51 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 116 0.3
2011 148 12th lowest of 15 · 228% of median 170 1.4
2012 65 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 130 1.2
2013 38 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median 88 1.9
2014 103 10th lowest of 15 · 158% of median 166 0.8
2015 207 15th lowest of 15 · 318% of median 158 1.1
2016 96 9th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 143 1.0
2017 114 11th lowest of 15 · 175% of median 183 1.0
2018 14 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median 40 0.6
2019 157 13th lowest of 15 · 242% of median 150 0.8
2020 52 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 127 0.8
2021 20 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median 54 0.6
2022 33 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median 59 1.0
2023 198 14th lowest of 15 · 305% of median 179 1.0
2024 60 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 130 0.4

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.