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WATSON THOMPSON D NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 4300999 · 1 · MIDDLE STEWART CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 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 in line
Priority 1917-07-14 — 732nd 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: EDMUND PAULS DITCH (1915-07-21). Immediately behind: WALSH DITCH (1915-04-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24725.24666 | 1917-07-14 | 1918-09-11 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 221 |
| 32172.24592 | 1917-05-01 | 1942-05-26 | 0.78 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467V |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 76 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 161 AF — 212% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 95 | 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 34 | 1.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | 6th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 11 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | 5th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 17 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 276 | 15th lowest of 15 · 363% of median | 66 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 141 | 12th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 74 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 76 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 27 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 223 | 14th lowest of 15 · 293% of median | 79 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 98 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 31 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 69 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 28 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 135 | 11th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 21 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 161 | 13th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 22 | 4.5 |
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