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YAMPA RIVER STATE WILDLIFE AREA PONDS
Structure dossier · WDID 5703522 · 3 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1987-08-14 — 582nd 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: SENECA MINE POND 006 (1983-10-01). Immediately behind: IRWIN DRAW SPRING (1970-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50403.50264 | 1987-08-14 | 1988-12-31 | 350.0 | 0.0 | A | RECWLD |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 376 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 53 AF — 14% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,534 | 12th lowest of 12 · 408% of median | 213 | 5.9 |
| 2013 | 556 | 9th lowest of 12 · 148% of median | 164 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 440 | 8th lowest of 12 · 117% of median | 131 | 5.4 |
| 2015 | 1,233 | 11th lowest of 12 · 328% of median | 145 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 284 | 4th lowest of 12 · 76% of median | 148 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 372 | 6th lowest of 12 · 99% of median | 132 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 380 | 7th lowest of 12 · 101% of median | 154 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 698 | 10th lowest of 12 · 186% of median | 112 | 6.2 |
| 2020 | 306 | 5th lowest of 12 · 81% of median | 68 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 133 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 35% of median | 53 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 270 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 72% of median | 103 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 53 | 1st lowest of 12 · 14% of median | 41 | 0.7 |
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