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Structure dossier · WDID 4403689 · 3 · MILK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:57 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
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
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 1888-07-17 — 455th most senior of the 3562 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: PYRAMID DITCH (1916-06-01). Immediately behind: HAMILL WELL 3 (1932-05-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29498.14078 | 1888-07-17 | 1931-10-26 | 400.82 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 43A |
| 36295.33758 | 1942-06-05 | 1960-09-01 | 1007.22 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 7 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA1278, 84CW0071, CA0602.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1278 | 2 | 1960-09-01 | S |
84CW0071 | 1 | 1960-09-01 | S |
CA0602 | 1 | 1931-10-26 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 310 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 308 AF — 100% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 4 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | — | no recorded volume | 603 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | — | no recorded volume | 730 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | — | no recorded volume | 998 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | — | no recorded volume | 708 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | — | no recorded volume | 539 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 311 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 100% of median | 1,099 | 16 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 692 | 4th lowest of 4 · 224% of median | 821 | 42 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 306 | 1st lowest of 4 · 99% of median | 711 | 14 | 32.2 |
| 2015 | — | no recorded volume | 662 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 308 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 100% of median | 732 | 28 | 10.6 |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 960 | 0 | — |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 100 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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