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DP WELL NO 4
Structure dossier · WDID 5705032 · 2 · WHETSTONE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:29 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 1994-05-31 — 688th 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: DP WELL NO 3 (1994-05-24). Immediately behind: DP WELL NO 4B (1994-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52746.0 | 1994-05-31 | 1994-12-31 | 0.3164 | 0.1292 | C | DOM |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
08CW0011, 01CW0081, 99CW0013, 21CW3005, 12CW3017, 05CW0048, 94CW0093, 01CW0022.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
08CW0011 | 1 | 2001-12-31 | S |
01CW0081 | 1 | 2001-12-31 | S |
99CW0013 | 1 | 1999-12-31 | S |
21CW3005 | 1 | 1999-12-31 | S |
12CW3017 | 1 | 1999-12-31 | S |
05CW0048 | 1 | 1999-12-31 | S |
94CW0093 | 1 | 1994-12-31 | S |
01CW0022 | 1 | 1994-12-31 | 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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 13 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 6 AF — 46% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 | 1st lowest of 11 · 8% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 364 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 17 | 8th lowest of 11 · 131% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 77% of median | 366 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 77% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 11 | 5th lowest of 11 · 85% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 42 | 10th lowest of 11 · 323% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 102 | 11th lowest of 11 · 785% of median | 366 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 22 | 9th lowest of 11 · 169% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 46% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 11 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 3651 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2000-2010 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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