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CROSS BAR Z D NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 4300593 · 1 · VAUGHN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1896-09-08 — 577th most senior of the 3293 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: CROSS BAR Z D NO 2 (1896-09-08). Immediately behind: GEORGE S WITTER DITCH (1887-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17420.17053 | 1896-09-08 | 1897-09-11 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 125 |
| 44559.25932 | 1920-12-31 | 1972-12-31 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 28 AF — 50% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 41 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 59 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 92 | 10th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 32 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 379 | 14th lowest of 15 · 677% of median | 109 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 682 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1218% of median | 120 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 71 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 22 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 345 | 13th lowest of 15 · 616% of median | 94 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 56 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 20 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 184 | 11th lowest of 15 · 329% of median | 52 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 219 | 12th lowest of 15 · 391% of median | 66 | 1.7 |
| 2025 | 28 | 6th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 13 | 1.4 |
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