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EARLE IRR ALT DIV
Structure dossier · WDID 5701239 · 8 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:22 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 1980-04-15 — 458th most senior of the 1003 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: CAVE IN SPRING (1979-07-15). Immediately behind: EARLE IRR DIVERSION (1980-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47587.0 | 1980-04-15 | 1980-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
95CW0006, 80CW0032.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
95CW0006 | 2 | 1980-12-31 | S |
80CW0032 | 1 | 1980-12-31 | 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 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 164 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 69 AF — 42% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 254 | 8th lowest of 12 · 155% of median | 21 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 71 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 43% of median | 6 | 7.1 |
| 2009 | 113 | 5th lowest of 12 · 69% of median | 9 | 7.1 |
| 2014 | 446 | 10th lowest of 12 · 272% of median | 92 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 177 | 7th lowest of 12 · 108% of median | 29 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 151 | 6th lowest of 12 · 92% of median | 28 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 547 | 11th lowest of 12 · 334% of median | 79 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 309 | 9th lowest of 12 · 188% of median | 44 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 74 | 4th lowest of 12 · 45% of median | 15 | 4.2 |
| 2021 | 561 | 12th lowest of 12 · 342% of median | 75 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 69 | 1st lowest of 12 · 42% of median | 13 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 69 | 1st lowest of 12 · 42% of median | 89 | 0.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 500 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 12% of the irrigation seasons in 2006-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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