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Structure dossier · WDID 4700588 · 1 · NORTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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.
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 1890-04-01 — 225th 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: PLEASANT VALLEY DITCH (1889-10-18). Immediately behind: TROUBLESOME DITCH (1890-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14701.0 | 1890-04-01 | 1902-04-23 | 4.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 104 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 317 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 630 AF — 199% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 511 | 12th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 71 | 4.4 |
| 2009 | 268 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 47 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 399 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 51 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 1,607 | 15th lowest of 15 · 507% of median | 56 | 15.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 100 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 32 | 2.1 |
| 2015 | 476 | 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 61 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 275 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 33 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 317 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 41 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 213 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 46 | 6.5 |
| 2019 | 653 | 14th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 75 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 161 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 28 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 147 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 11 | 7.4 |
| 2022 | 336 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 24 | 8.3 |
| 2023 | 630 | 13th lowest of 15 · 199% of median | 73 | 4.4 |
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