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LOWER BARNES SPG
Structure dossier · WDID 4302411 · 4 · MIDDLE STEWART CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1888-05-01 — 1991st 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: PRIVATE SPRING (1888-03-20). Immediately behind: BARNES SPG (1888-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47847.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1981-12-31 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 15 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 159 AF — 1060% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 67 | 11th lowest of 15 · 447% of median | 93 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 11 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | 10th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 24 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | 7th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 13 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 74 | 12th lowest of 15 · 493% of median | 125 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 75 | 13th lowest of 15 · 500% of median | 77 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 252 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1680% of median | 128 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 159 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1060% of median | 20 | 5.0 |
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