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Structure dossier · WDID 4700961 · 1 · ROARING FORK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:51 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 1888-05-08 — 146th 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: HILLSIDE DITCH (1888-05-01). Immediately behind: STAPLES DITCH 1 (1888-05-10).

Decreed rights (5)

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
14008.01888-05-081892-09-19 6.00.0 CIRR 64(61)
18921.01901-10-211908-07-01 140.00.0 CSTOIRRFISSTK 160
23016.225471911-09-251921-08-02 38.00.0 CSTOIRRFISSTK 201
44559.22091910-06-251972-12-31 30.00.0 CIRR
50038.199041904-06-301987-12-31 4.50.0 CIRRSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12,604 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 7,785 AF — 62% of that, and 4th 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)
2008 12,604 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 125 184.0
2009 13,091 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 126 180.0
2010 8,039 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median 85 188.0
2012 7,984 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 84 110.0
2013 14,814 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 192 208.0
2014 15,643 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 128 180.5
2015 8,945 7th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 117 139.0
2016 16,970 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 164 240.6
2017 27,424 15th lowest of 15 · 218% of median 174 178.3
2018 15,803 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 111 140.0
2019 25,583 14th lowest of 15 · 203% of median 138 258.3
2022 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2023 2,899 3rd lowest of 15 · 23% of median 55 38.8
2024 720 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median 13 30.2
2025 7,785 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median 72 129.1

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