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Structure dossier · WDID 5300552 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1954-08-12 — 369th most senior of the 1231 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: GRIMES BROOKS FEEDER 1 D (1954-08-09). Immediately behind: RIVER RANCH VILLAGE PUMP 1 (1897-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38209.0 | 1954-08-12 | 1956-02-07 | 0.147 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 409 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 26 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1993, came in at 22 AF — 85% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 217 | 14th lowest of 15 · 835% of median | 146 | 0.8 |
| 1979 | 189 | 10th lowest of 15 · 727% of median | 128 | 0.8 |
| 1980 | 242 | 15th lowest of 15 · 931% of median | 163 | 0.8 |
| 1981 | 71 | 9th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 145 | 0.2 |
| 1982 | 189 | 10th lowest of 15 · 727% of median | 128 | 0.8 |
| 1983 | 208 | 12th lowest of 15 · 800% of median | 141 | 0.8 |
| 1984 | 214 | 13th lowest of 15 · 823% of median | 145 | 0.8 |
| 1985 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 135 | 0.1 |
| 1989 | 16 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 83 | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 12 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 1991 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 114 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 111 | 0.1 |
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