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Structure dossier · WDID 4300596 · 1 · DAUM DRAW · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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.
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 1887-05-10 — 1186th 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: HARP WELL NO 1 (1958-06-20). Immediately behind: BIG LICK RES (1903-12-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39776.13644 | 1887-05-10 | 1966-11-21 | 2.73 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | 603 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 373 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 287 AF — 77% of that, and 7th 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 | 220 | 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 125 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 172 | 5th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 75 | 1.5 |
| 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 | 373 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 32 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 990 | 13th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 109 | 5.9 |
| 2019 | 612 | 10th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 57 | 8.2 |
| 2020 | 467 | 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 47 | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 661 | 12th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 94 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 1,032 | 14th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 114 | 5.9 |
| 2023 | 630 | 11th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 85 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 1,742 | 15th lowest of 15 · 467% of median | 172 | 6.6 |
| 2025 | 287 | 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 50 | 3.1 |
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