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LITTLE HILL SPRING
Structure dossier · WDID 4303185 · 4 · PICEANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 2003-07-15 — 3052nd 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: BITTER CREEK MINIMUM STREAM FLOW (2003-01-22). Immediately behind: ENCANA SPRING NO. 1 (2003-12-27).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56078.0 | 2003-07-15 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0367 | 0.1192 | C | IRRCOMINDDOMAUG | |
| 56228.0 | 2003-12-12 | 2003-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.85 | C | IRRCOMINDFIRDOMSTKAUGWLD |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 20 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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 | 20 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 44 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 572 | 11th lowest of 11 · 2860% of median | 148 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 53 | 8th lowest of 11 · 265% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 512 | 10th lowest of 11 · 2560% of median | 132 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 41 | 7th lowest of 11 · 205% of median | 88 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 100 | 9th lowest of 11 · 500% of median | 104 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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