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Structure dossier · WDID 4300948 · 1 · PICEANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:53 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 1884-12-03 — 21st 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: METZ DITCH (1884-12-02). Immediately behind: SQUARE S CONS D ALT PT (1884-12-03).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12756.0 | 1884-12-03 | 1890-10-22 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 16B |
| 13270.0 | 1886-05-01 | 1890-10-22 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 30A |
| 13274.0 | 1886-05-05 | 1890-10-22 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39A |
| 13509.0 | 1886-12-26 | 1889-05-10 | 5.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 55 |
| 32172.24592 | 1917-05-01 | 1942-05-26 | 8.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467Z21, 46 |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA0624, 98CW0048.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0624 | 6 | 1942-05-26 | O, S |
98CW0048 | 1 | 1889-05-10 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 540 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 447 AF — 83% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,166 | 15th lowest of 15 · 586% of median | 126 | 23.0 |
| 2012 | 594 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 95 | 4.9 |
| 2013 | 941 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 131 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 1,000 | 13th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 135 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 2,328 | 14th lowest of 15 · 431% of median | 125 | 12.3 |
| 2016 | 856 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 68 | 11.3 |
| 2017 | 195 | 1st lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 46 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 413 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 106 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 540 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 39 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 432 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 134 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 253 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 56 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 445 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 136 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 777 | 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 71 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 509 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 77 | 3.7 |
| 2025 | 447 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 78 | 4.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4151 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 50% of the irrigation seasons in 1986-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.