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LITTLE HILLS SPG NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 4302112 · 4 · PICEANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:02 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 1920-09-01 — 1809th 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: FOOTE POND SPG (1920-09-01). Immediately behind: YELLOW CREEK RES NO 1 (1940-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46386.25811 | 1920-09-01 | 1977-12-31 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | |
| 56231.0 | 2003-12-15 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 1.0 | C | IRRCOMINDFIRSTKWLD |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
03CW0309, W3447-77.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0309 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | S |
W3447-77 | 1 | 1977-12-31 | S |
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 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — —% of that, and 1st lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 52 | 7th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 110 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 77 | 9th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 151 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | 6th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 19 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 66 | 8th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 135 | 0.2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 9 recorded years (-4 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.029).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 424 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 13% of the irrigation seasons in 2009-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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