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BAILEY WELL
Structure dossier · WDID 4305018 · 2 · WOLF CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:51 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 1947-06-15 — 1090th 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: PETERSON WELL 2 (1947-06-01). Immediately behind: GILLY DITCH (1904-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35594.0 | 1947-06-15 | 1972-12-31 | 0.013 | 0.0 | C | ALL |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 7 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 305 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 17 | 13th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 173 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 193 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 12th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 212 | 0.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 183 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 177 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 30 | 14th lowest of 15 · 429% of median | 155 | 0.1 |
| 2006 | 36 | 15th lowest of 15 · 514% of median | 184 | 0.1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 155 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 4 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 155 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 3 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 154 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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