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RUESCH SPRING
Structure dossier · WDID 5101168 · 4 · POLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:50 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 1966-07-26 — 1026th most senior of the 2208 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: GAYLORD FEEDER DITCH AND PIPELINE (1966-07-26). Immediately behind: MORAINE LAKE NO 2 (1969-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46020.42575 | 1966-07-26 | 1976-12-31 | 0.445 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECFIRDOM |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 78 AF — 260% of that, and 9th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 30% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 2016 | 50 | 8th lowest of 9 · 167% of median | 305 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 8 | 1st lowest of 9 · 27% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 30 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4th lowest of 9 · 93% of median | 304 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 30% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 44 | 6th lowest of 9 · 147% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2023 | 48 | 7th lowest of 9 · 160% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 78 | 9th lowest of 9 · 260% of median | 305 | 0.3 |
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