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RANCHO TRES WELL NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4505167 · 2 · PORCUPINE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1953-12-31 — 351st 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: RANCHO TRES WELL NO 1 (1953-12-31). Immediately behind: BATTLEMENT MESA DOM P PL (1955-01-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37985.0 | 1953-12-31 | 1972-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 294 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2002, came in at 12 AF — 4% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 42 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 23 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 97 | 4th lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 63 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 121 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 294 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 149 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 308 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 141 | 1.1 |
| 1994 | 424 | 15th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 215 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 375 | 14th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 190 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 343 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 174 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 363 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 184 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 337 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 172 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 204 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 105 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 357 | 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 183 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 230 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 117 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 8 | 1.0 |
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