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SUGARLOAF WATER LINE
Structure dossier · WDID 5600576 · 7 · FONCE WASH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1955-06-13 — 74th most senior of the 909 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: CALLOWAY SPGS PL (1954-09-26). Immediately behind: MCKNIGHT NO 1 (1956-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38514.0 | 1955-06-13 | 1964-10-09 | 0.05 | 0.0 | C | INDDOM | 21 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 22 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1986, came in at 30 AF — 136% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 11 | 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 114 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 1974 | 36 | 12th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 36 | 12th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1976 | 36 | 12th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 366 | 0.1 |
| 1977 | 25 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1978 | 15 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 19 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 366 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 225 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 36 | 12th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 30 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 305 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 22 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 220 | 0.1 |
| 1986 | 30 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
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