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Structure dossier · WDID 4100557 · 1 · HAPPY CANYON 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 1886-05-01 — 143rd 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: CHAIREZ WELL NO 1 (1886-04-01). Immediately behind: SPRING DITCH (1886-08-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
29038.13271886-05-011941-12-04 2.50.0 CIRR 164

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 382 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 298 AF — 78% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1986 567 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 133 4.0
1987 602 13th lowest of 15 · 158% of median 143 3.8
1988 239 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 67 3.2
1989 228 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 90 1.5
1990 599 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median 143 2.5
1991 1,103 15th lowest of 15 · 289% of median 123 6.5
1992 208 1st lowest of 15 · 54% of median 106 1.0
1993 1,089 14th lowest of 15 · 285% of median 147 7.0
1994 257 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 77 2.5
1995 372 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 140 2.6
1996 382 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 144 2.0
1997 233 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median 126 1.0
1998 472 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 169 2.5
1999 565 10th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 184 2.4
2000 298 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 67 2.5

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