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SILVER PLUME SPRING D

Structure dossier · WDID 4100561 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1910-05-01 — 172nd 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: HORSEFLY DITCH (1889-04-01). Immediately behind: BALL DITCH (1930-04-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
33575.220351910-05-011954-01-29 0.50.0 CIRR 207
33575.306141933-10-261954-01-29 0.50.0 CFIS 221

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 521 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 95 AF — 18% of that, and 2nd 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)
1973 559 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 365 1.6
1974 584 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 365 1.9
1975 661 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 352 1.8
1976 607 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 366 1.6
1977 436 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 348 1.2
1978 2,228 15th lowest of 15 · 428% of median 365 6.0
1979 1,216 14th lowest of 15 · 233% of median 364 2.5
1980 521 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 351 0.8
1981 528 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 362 0.8
1982 452 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 304 0.8
1983 318 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median 214 0.8
1984 88 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 92 0.5
1985 242 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median 173 0.8
1986 181 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median 122 0.8
2000 95 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median 50 1.0

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