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HELEN AND LEE SPG AND PL
Structure dossier · WDID 4500624 · 4 · DIVIDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:03 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1958-08-11 — 405th most senior of the 1378 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: ELLIS SPRING & PIPELINE (1958-07-01). Immediately behind: EATON WELL NO 1 (1959-11-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39669.0 | 1958-08-11 | 1965-07-09 | 0.42 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 263 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA4954.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4954 | 1 | 1965-07-09 | 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 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1998, came in at 4 AF — 33% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 54 | 12th lowest of 12 · 450% of median | 197 | 0.4 |
| 1988 | 19 | 10th lowest of 12 · 158% of median | 32 | 0.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | 9th lowest of 12 · 125% of median | 73 | 0.4 |
| 1990 | 49 | 11th lowest of 12 · 408% of median | 214 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 50% of median | 104 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 12 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 207 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 201 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 58% of median | 187 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 16 | 0.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 58% of median | 33 | 0.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | 5th lowest of 12 · 67% of median | 36 | 0.4 |
| 1998 | 4 | 1st lowest of 12 · 33% of median | 6 | 0.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 12 recorded years (-2 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.007).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1306 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 55% of the irrigation seasons in 1987-1998 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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