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DELTA OAK CREEK PIPELINE

Structure dossier · WDID 4000836 · 7 · OAK CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 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 1973-09-24 — 2349th 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: MCKEE SPRING PIPELINE (1973-07-15). Immediately behind: GIRLING NO 8 WELL (1973-10-12).

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
45290.451921973-09-241974-12-31 4.00.0 CMUNDOM

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 108 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 139 AF — 128% of that, and 9th lowest of the 12 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
1979 127 8th lowest of 12 · 117% of median — 44 2.8
1980 43 5th lowest of 12 · 40% of median — 6 4.3
1989 — no recorded volume 145 0 —
1990 — no recorded volume 130 0 —
1992 — no recorded volume 188 0 —
2014 0 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median — 1 0.0
2015 873 12th lowest of 12 · 805% of median — 201 3.3
2016 113 7th lowest of 12 · 104% of median — 59 1.5
2017 262 11th lowest of 12 · 242% of median — 138 2.8
2019 8 3rd lowest of 12 · 7% of median — 3 2.0
2020 2 2nd lowest of 12 · 2% of median — 2 1.0
2021 30 4th lowest of 12 · 28% of median — 31 0.5
2022 194 10th lowest of 12 · 179% of median — 197 0.5
2023 104 6th lowest of 12 · 96% of median — 22 2.5
2024 139 9th lowest of 12 · 128% of median — 109 1.0

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.