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DESERADO MINE WATER SYSTEM
Structure dossier · WDID 4302317 · 2 · SCULLION GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1978-06-23 — 1962nd 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: H A BRADFORD PUMP NO 1 (1977-05-01). Immediately behind: DEWATERING SYSTEM WELL SH-3 (1978-06-23).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47481.46925 | 1978-06-23 | 1980-12-31 | 50.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRINDFIRDOM | |
| 47481.46925 | 1978-06-23 | 1980-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDFIRDOM |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 19 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, came in at 259 AF — 1363% of that, and 13th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | 7th lowest of 14 · 32% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 75 | 10th lowest of 14 · 395% of median | 304 | 0.2 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 35 | 9th lowest of 14 · 184% of median | 71 | 0.3 |
| 2002 | 153 | 12th lowest of 14 · 805% of median | 306 | 0.3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 76 | 11th lowest of 14 · 400% of median | 61 | 0.7 |
| 2006 | 286 | 14th lowest of 14 · 1505% of median | 304 | 0.6 |
| 2007 | 32 | 8th lowest of 14 · 168% of median | 61 | 0.4 |
| 2008 | 259 | 13th lowest of 14 · 1363% of median | 305 | 0.9 |
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