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Structure dossier · WDID 4700569 · 1 · LINE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1893-06-15 — 569th most senior of the 1262 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: LAKE ROSLYN RES (1936-09-12). Immediately behind: NORTH PARK ANGUS WELL 3 (1940-07-20).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
32677.158721893-06-151941-10-24 2.5330.0 CIRR 740

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 826 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 407 AF — 49% of that, and 5th 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 328 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median 72 2.5
2012 617 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 55 6.3
2013 226 3rd lowest of 15 · 27% of median 40 3.0
2014 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2015 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2016 779 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 50 12.7
2017 2,186 15th lowest of 15 · 265% of median 119 12.6
2018 1,198 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 68 18.0
2019 1,983 13th lowest of 15 · 240% of median 62 21.4
2020 826 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 72 10.0
2021 1,624 12th lowest of 15 · 197% of median 104 10.0
2022 1,039 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 93 10.0
2023 906 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 75 10.0
2024 2,088 14th lowest of 15 · 253% of median 77 20.3
2025 407 5th lowest of 15 · 49% of median 101 2.9

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.