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Structure dossier · WDID 5000562 · 1 · PINTO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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
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 1913-06-01 — 133rd most senior of the 360 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: NIGHTCAP DITCH (1932-05-16). Immediately behind: ANTELOPE RESERVOIR (1915-01-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31393.23162 | 1913-06-01 | 1938-07-13 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 150 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 65 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 17 AF — 26% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 379 | 15th lowest of 15 · 583% of median | 62 | 3.5 |
| 1993 | 332 | 14th lowest of 15 · 511% of median | 58 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 279 | 13th lowest of 15 · 429% of median | 52 | 3.5 |
| 1995 | 275 | 12th lowest of 15 · 423% of median | 47 | 3.5 |
| 1996 | 236 | 11th lowest of 15 · 363% of median | 38 | 3.5 |
| 1997 | 52 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 136 | 10th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 47 | 1.7 |
| 1999 | 64 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 29 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 80 | 9th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 28 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 14 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 44 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 43 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 13 | 0.2 |
| 2005 | 65 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 17 | 4th lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 29 | 0.3 |
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