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SECOND ENLARGEMENT OF TH
Structure dossier · WDID 4303398 · 1 · HILL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 1955-05-29 — 1169th 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: MAIN HOUSE POND (1955-05-29). Immediately behind: STILLWATER RESERVOIR (1955-05-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38499.0 | 1955-05-29 | 1958-11-26 | 4.76 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 569 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 49 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 159 AF — 324% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 27 | 7th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 79 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 108 | 11th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 121 | 0.7 |
| 2008 | 68 | 10th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 78 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 61 | 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 49 | 0.8 |
| 2010 | 49 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 87 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 211 | 15th lowest of 15 · 431% of median | 111 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 41 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | 6th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 26 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 119 | 12th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 153 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 135 | 13th lowest of 15 · 276% of median | 92 | 0.8 |
| 2025 | 159 | 14th lowest of 15 · 324% of median | 96 | 1.1 |
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