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Structure dossier · WDID 5703001 · 1 · TROUT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1982-08-11 — 499th 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: SMUIN GULCH SPG (1982-06-22). Immediately behind: EARLE SPRING 1 (1982-08-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48435.0 | 1982-08-11 | 1982-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 4 | 6th lowest of 10 · 114% of median | 2 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 36 | 10th lowest of 10 · 1029% of median | 15 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 9th lowest of 10 · 229% of median | 8 | 0.6 |
| 1997 | 4 | 6th lowest of 10 · 114% of median | 10 | 0.4 |
| 2000 | 3 | 5th lowest of 10 · 86% of median | 6 | 0.4 |
| 2007 | 4 | 6th lowest of 10 · 114% of median | 4 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
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