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Structure dossier · WDID 4100540 · 1 · CEDAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1919-06-15 — 130th 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: SUMNER WELL (1918-12-31). Immediately behind: CASTLE WELL (1922-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25367.0 | 1919-06-15 | 1929-07-03 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 158 |
| 35488.0 | 1947-03-01 | 1954-01-29 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 218 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 386 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 83 AF — 22% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 378 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 83 | 3.1 |
| 1988 | 609 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 143 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 519 | 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 129 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 447 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 127 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 494 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 102 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 307 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 64 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 628 | 15th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 124 | 3.5 |
| 1994 | 386 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 314 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 64 | 3.0 |
| 1996 | 528 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 142 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 173 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 44 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 236 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 57 | 3.5 |
| 1999 | 468 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 84 | 3.5 |
| 2000 | 240 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 52 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 83 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 85 | 0.5 |
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