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Structure dossier · WDID 4100538 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1889-12-19 — 79th most senior of the 1104 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: GOODWIN WELL NO 3 (1900-05-01). Immediately behind: MUDHOLES (1905-06-14).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19808.14598 | 1889-12-19 | 1916-04-25 | 5.47 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 125, 2 |
| 29038.14598 | 1889-12-19 | 1941-12-04 | 9.53 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 172 |
| 59169.56887 | 2005-10-01 | 2012-12-31 | 0.05 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,666 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,376 AF — 83% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,400 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 82 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 1,900 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 153 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 890 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 123 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 454 | 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 45 | 7.5 |
| 2015 | 1,954 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 142 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 1,666 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 166 | 13.7 |
| 2017 | 2,624 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 184 | 13.3 |
| 2018 | 1,855 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 194 | 10.1 |
| 2019 | 2,496 | 13th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 187 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 2,121 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 197 | 10.8 |
| 2021 | 1,311 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 150 | 7.8 |
| 2022 | 1,566 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 187 | 8.2 |
| 2023 | 2,689 | 15th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 204 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 1,335 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 163 | 6.1 |
| 2025 | 1,376 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 189 | 9.0 |
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