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ORCHARD CITY IRRIGATION DISTRICT PUMPING
Structure dossier · WDID 4000893 · 8 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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 1957-01-15 — 1997th 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: BEAVER RESERVOIR (1956-10-06). Immediately behind: LETA A SHAFFER D NO 1 (1957-04-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39096.0 | 1957-01-15 | 1964-01-31 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | K147 |
Recorded use (last 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,694 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1981, came in at 655 AF — 39% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 6 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 | 79 | 1st lowest of 6 · 5% of median | 14 | 5.0 |
| 1972 | 1,527 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 90% of median | 111 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 2,999 | 6th lowest of 6 · 177% of median | 128 | 12.0 |
| 1976 | 1,964 | 5th lowest of 6 · 116% of median | 106 | 10.0 |
| 1977 | 1,862 | 4th lowest of 6 · 110% of median | 138 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 655 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 39% of median | 35 | 10.0 |
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