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Structure dossier · WDID 4500732 · 1 · BATTLEMENT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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 1885-11-25 — 42nd 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: HUDSON & SULLIVAN DITCH (1885-11-15). Immediately behind: HALL WELL NO 1 (1885-11-30).

Decreed rights (6)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13113.01885-11-251888-05-05 2.00.0 CIRR 44
13580.01887-03-071888-05-05 2.7750.0 CIRR 67
13868.01887-12-201888-05-05 2.830.0 CIRR 101
19850.131131885-11-251904-05-31 0.830.0 CDOMSTK DOM6
19850.13581887-03-071904-05-31 0.420.0 CDOMSTK DOM8
21903.219031909-12-201910-04-16 1.00.0 CIRR 143BB

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 567 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 590 AF — 104% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 576 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 174 7.6
2011 1,043 15th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 170 7.6
2012 468 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 128 4.8
2013 553 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 195 4.8
2014 589 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 194 5.8
2015 535 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 75 5.0
2016 758 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median 171 6.8
2017 567 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 74 7.6
2018 219 3rd lowest of 15 · 39% of median 39 4.8
2019 731 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 105 6.5
2020 176 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median 54 2.0
2021 215 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median 34 4.8
2022 514 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 68 4.8
2023 720 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 99 5.6
2024 590 11th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 85 4.8

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