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Structure dossier · WDID 4800505 · 1 · LARAMIE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:48 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 in line
Priority 1894-06-01 — 27th most senior of the 143 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: PACHE DITCH (1893-05-25). Immediately behind: LONE TREE DITCH (1894-10-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16223.0 | 1894-06-01 | 1896-10-30 | 14.22 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 786 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 658 AF — 84% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 881 | 15th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 64 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 786 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 58 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 534 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 44 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 814 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 61 | 11.4 |
| 2014 | 822 | 12th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 62 | 11.4 |
| 2015 | 814 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 61 | 11.4 |
| 2016 | 820 | 11th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 62 | 11.4 |
| 2017 | 847 | 13th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 66 | 11.4 |
| 2018 | 863 | 14th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 61 | 9.6 |
| 2019 | 732 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 62 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 673 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 91 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 766 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 82 | 8.5 |
| 2022 | 513 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 93 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 479 | 1st lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 99 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 658 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 82 | 10.9 |
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