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Structure dossier · WDID 5300586 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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.

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 1961-09-11 — 410th 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: GORE PASS CG SPRING (1961-05-29). Immediately behind: BOYLES WELL (1961-12-31).

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
40796.01961-09-111962-10-19 6.00.0 CIRRDOM 445

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 170 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 243 AF — 143% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 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)
2004 61 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median 40 0.9
2005 100 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 57 1.2
2007 38 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 57 0.5
2008 37 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median 38 0.5
2009 43 3rd lowest of 15 · 25% of median 44 0.5
2010 170 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 58 1.5
2011 179 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 62 1.5
2012 101 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 43 1.2
2013 64 5th lowest of 15 · 38% of median 41 1.0
2015 526 15th lowest of 15 · 309% of median 180 2.0
2016 444 14th lowest of 15 · 261% of median 173 1.4
2017 373 13th lowest of 15 · 219% of median 104 2.2
2018 260 12th lowest of 15 · 153% of median 146 1.3
2019 251 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 97 1.7
2024 243 10th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 104 1.2

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