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WINTER PARK WEST WELL 3
Structure dossier · WDID 5105223 · 2 · FRASER RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:55 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 1882-12-31 — 17th 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: WINTER PARK WEST WELL 6 (1882-12-31). Immediately behind: WINTER PARK WEST WELL 1 (1882-12-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12053.0 | 1882-12-31 | 1906-08-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 12 |
| 12296.0 | 1883-08-31 | 1906-08-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 19 |
| 20676.14944 | 1890-11-30 | 1911-08-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 192 |
| 34241.15493 | 1892-06-01 | 1952-11-07 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 448 |
| 42562.0 | 1966-07-13 | 1972-12-31 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | MUNCOMINDRECFISDOMWLD |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 22 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 29 AF — 132% of that, and 6th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 11 | 1st lowest of 8 · 50% of median | 214 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 23 | 5th lowest of 8 · 104% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 73% of median | 151 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 59 | 8th lowest of 8 · 268% of median | 304 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4th lowest of 8 · 96% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 86% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 30 | 7th lowest of 8 · 136% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 29 | 6th lowest of 8 · 132% of median | 305 | 0.2 |
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