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Structure dossier · WDID 5400566 · 1 · SLATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 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 1889-04-04 — 14th most senior of the 724 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: CLARK BUTLER WESTFALL DITCH (1888-11-20). Immediately behind: MARY E HOFFMAN DITCH 1 (1892-10-22).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14339.0 | 1889-04-04 | 1894-09-22 | 1.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
| 46386.14715 | 1890-04-15 | 1977-12-31 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 431 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 450 AF — 104% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 825 | 15th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 119 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 559 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 96 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 536 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 159 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 464 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 127 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 135 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 76 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 80 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 182 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 57 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 323 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 65 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 200 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 57 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 208 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 79 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 314 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 52 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 431 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 522 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 89 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 522 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 82 | 4.2 |
| 2025 | 450 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 62 | 5.0 |
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