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UNCOMPAHGRE CEDAR CR D
Structure dossier · WDID 4100571 · 1 · CEDAR CREEK · 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 1883-12-13 — 42nd 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: BUCKHORN DITCH (1883-12-10). Immediately behind: A M H LATERAL (1883-12-13).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12400.0 | 1883-12-13 | 1890-06-30 | 29.1 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 1, 40 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,863 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1988, came in at 2,755 AF — 57% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 4,209 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 365 | 6.0 |
| 1971 | 1,870 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 153 | 8.0 |
| 1972 | 2,233 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 157 | 8.0 |
| 1973 | 1,904 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 161 | 6.0 |
| 1974 | 3,618 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 304 | 6.0 |
| 1978 | 7,556 | 10th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 198 | 34.0 |
| 1979 | 9,819 | 13th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 256 | 35.0 |
| 1980 | 9,004 | 11th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 297 | 28.0 |
| 1981 | 11,450 | 15th lowest of 15 · 236% of median | 260 | 41.0 |
| 1983 | 9,967 | 14th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 214 | 28.0 |
| 1984 | 9,447 | 12th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 108 | 44.1 |
| 1985 | 621 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 93 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 6,365 | 9th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 122 | 58.0 |
| 1987 | 4,863 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 140 | 31.0 |
| 1988 | 2,755 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 90 | 28.1 |
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