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KAYSER SPRING PIPELINE

Structure dossier · WDID 5300659 · 4 · SUTTON CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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 1943-07-01 — 318th 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: J L WELL (1943-06-30). Immediately behind: SWETWTR CG SPRING (1943-11-17).

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
34149.01943-07-011956-02-07 0.04540.0 CDOM 349

Recorded use (last 12 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 28 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 27 AF — 98% of that, and 5th lowest of the 12 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)
1974 5 1st lowest of 12 · 18% of median 61 0.0
1975 40 9th lowest of 12 · 146% of median 365 0.4
1976 66 11th lowest of 12 · 240% of median 366 0.2
1977 28 7th lowest of 12 · 102% of median 312 0.0
1978 27 5th lowest of 12 · 98% of median 304 0.0
1979 54 10th lowest of 12 · 196% of median 61 0.4
1980 271 12th lowest of 12 · 986% of median 304 0.4
1981 6 2nd lowest of 12 · 22% of median 61 0.1
1982 30 8th lowest of 12 · 109% of median 304 0.1
1985 13 3rd lowest of 12 · 47% of median 152 0.0
1986 19 4th lowest of 12 · 69% of median 213 0.0
1987 27 5th lowest of 12 · 98% of median 304 0.0

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