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Structure dossier · WDID 5303995 · 3 · EGERIA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:59 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 1891-06-30 — 121st 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: MCKEAN NO 2 DITCH (1888-04-01). Immediately behind: CLARK DITCH (1892-05-06).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190.15156 | 1891-06-30 | 1904-11-14 | 68.87 | 0.0 | A | IRRSTK | 145 |
| 19437.0 | 1903-03-21 | 1904-11-14 | 267.83 | 0.0 | A | IRRSTK | 149 |
| 44559.42035 | 1965-02-01 | 1972-12-31 | 195.4 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 398 |
| 59169.53234 | 1995-10-01 | 2012-12-31 | 58.0 | 474.1 | A | RECFISSTKWLD |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
23CW3003, 12CW0187, W0136, CA1123, 93CW0135, CA0433.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
23CW3003 | 1 | 2012-12-31 | S |
12CW0187 | 1 | 2012-12-31 | S |
W0136 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | S |
CA1123 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | S |
93CW0135 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | S |
CA0433 | 2 | 1904-11-14 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 350 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 268 AF — 77% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 4 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | — | no recorded volume | 682 | 0 | — |
| 1980 | 524 | 4th lowest of 4 · 150% of median | — | 132 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | — | no recorded volume | 71 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | — | no recorded volume | 188 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | — | no recorded volume | 155 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 141 | 1st lowest of 4 · 40% of median | 160 | 34 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | — | no recorded volume | 189 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 431 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 123% of median | 483 | 61 | 6.5 |
| 2023 | 268 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 77% of median | — | 17 | 8.5 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 244 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 2% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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