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Structure dossier · WDID 5800530 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1888-10-29 — 82nd most senior of the 3097 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: STAGECOACH RESERVOIR (1888-10-22). Immediately behind: SUTTLE DITCH (1888-10-29).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14182.0 | 1888-10-29 | 1892-09-22 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 61(65) |
| 14567.0 | 1889-11-18 | 1892-09-22 | 10.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (78)87 |
| 33236.3278 | 1939-10-01 | 1941-04-10 | 12.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 191C |
| 45655.40359 | 1960-07-01 | 1975-12-31 | 25.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,407 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,753 AF — 156% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,311 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 62 | 25.0 |
| 2012 | 4,685 | 13th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 120 | 33.4 |
| 2013 | 5,531 | 14th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 126 | 49.6 |
| 2014 | 8,230 | 15th lowest of 15 · 342% of median | 144 | 50.0 |
| 2015 | 1,736 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 38 | 25.0 |
| 2016 | 1,426 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 118 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 3,287 | 9th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 201 | 19.4 |
| 2018 | 2,407 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 188 | 16.0 |
| 2019 | 2,209 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 72 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 313 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 45 | 4.8 |
| 2021 | 2,377 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 152 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 1,031 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 60 | 23.3 |
| 2023 | 3,979 | 12th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 133 | 37.8 |
| 2024 | 3,337 | 10th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 102 | 29.0 |
| 2025 | 3,753 | 11th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 146 | 28.7 |
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