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WILLOW CREEK HDG NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 5200657 · 1 · SHEEPHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1907-04-18 — 131st most senior of the 562 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: GRAPE CREEK NO 2 DITCH (1905-06-09). Immediately behind: WILLOW CREEK HDG NO 2 (1907-04-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29437.20926 | 1907-04-18 | 1946-08-30 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 235 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 63 AF — 27% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 277 | 13th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 109 | 1.4 |
| 1984 | 237 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 97 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 275 | 12th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 89 | 2.3 |
| 1986 | 242 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 80 | 2.2 |
| 1987 | 172 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 83 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 334 | 15th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 52 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 235 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 248 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 56 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 323 | 14th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 91 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 224 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 93 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 66 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 45 | 0.8 |
| 1995 | 81 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 55 | 0.8 |
| 1996 | 101 | 5th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 53 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 67 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 69 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 63 | 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 65 | 0.5 |
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