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PINEY WLDLF AREA SP NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 5200703 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 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 1957-02-25 — 303rd 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: PINEY WLDLF AREA SP NO 2 (1957-02-25). Immediately behind: RADIUM WILDLIFE SPG NO 3 (1958-08-14).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
45290.391371957-02-251974-12-31 0.550.0 CIRRDOMSTK

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 69 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 69 AF — 100% of that, and 7th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1985 199 9th lowest of 14 · 288% of median 183 0.6
1986 199 9th lowest of 14 · 288% of median 183 0.6
1987 52 3rd lowest of 14 · 75% of median 88 0.3
1988 69 7th lowest of 14 · 100% of median 71 0.5
1989 60 4th lowest of 14 · 87% of median 62 0.5
1990 61 5th lowest of 14 · 88% of median 76 0.5
1991 50 2nd lowest of 14 · 72% of median 90 0.5
1994 25 1st lowest of 14 · 36% of median 126 0.1
1995 65 6th lowest of 14 · 94% of median 67 0.5
1996 273 12th lowest of 14 · 396% of median 275 0.5
1997 362 13th lowest of 14 · 525% of median 365 0.5
1998 362 13th lowest of 14 · 525% of median 365 0.5
1999 209 11th lowest of 14 · 303% of median 365 0.5
2000 69 7th lowest of 14 · 100% of median 184 0.5

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