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YELLOW JACKET SPRINGS
Structure dossier · WDID 4500830 · 4 · EAST DIVIDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:39 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 1951-07-14 — 315th 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: MIDWILLOW 4 SPRING (1950-12-31). Immediately behind: KENNON WELL (1951-08-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37084.0 | 1951-07-14 | 1953-03-02 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | 209 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA4072.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4072 | 1 | 1953-03-02 | 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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1996, came in at 7 AF — 100% of that, and 4th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 16 | 7th lowest of 7 · 229% of median | 100 | 0.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | 1st lowest of 7 · 71% of median | 26 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 86% of median | 34 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | 5th lowest of 7 · 143% of median | 50 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 86% of median | 29 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | 6th lowest of 7 · 200% of median | 73 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 7 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 36 | 0.1 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 348 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 16% of the irrigation seasons in 1986-1996 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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