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Structure dossier · WDID 4000902 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:26 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 1892-04-05 — 611th 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: RELIEF DITCH (1890-03-15). Immediately behind: MCLEOD DITCH (1883-08-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729.15436 | 1892-04-05 | 1903-02-25 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 41668.33768 | 1942-06-15 | 1969-08-11 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | L35 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA5873, CA0374.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA5873 | 1 | 1969-08-11 | S |
CA0374 | 1 | 1903-02-25 | 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 875 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 883 AF — 101% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 392 | 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 122 | 2.5 |
| 1984 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 155 | 4th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 162 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 963 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 169 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 1,269 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 200 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 1,156 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 174 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 586 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 111 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 1,397 | 15th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 201 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 1,091 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 203 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 630 | 7th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 194 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 1,375 | 14th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 106 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 875 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 149 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 883 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 178 | 3.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+23 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.033).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 3898 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 33% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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