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FINGER ROCK PL NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 5800638 · 7 · BRINKER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:57 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 1965-07-15 — 880th 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: CARROLL ELKINS SPG & PL (1965-06-05). Immediately behind: HOT SPRING CK MSF-L (1965-07-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42199.0 | 1965-07-15 | 1972-05-30 | 8.35 | 0.0 | C | RECFIS | 53 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3926.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3926 | 1 | 1972-05-30 | 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 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 16 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1986, came in at 1,004 AF — 6275% of that, and 9th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 216 | 8th lowest of 9 · 1350% of median | 152 | 1.3 |
| 1970 | 75 | 7th lowest of 9 · 469% of median | 304 | 0.5 |
| 1971 | 70 | 6th lowest of 9 · 438% of median | 182 | 0.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 183 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 9 | 1st lowest of 9 · 56% of median | 93 | 0.1 |
| 1974 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 200 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 184 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 88% of median | 161 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 1,004 | 9th lowest of 9 · 6275% of median | 172 | 4.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 9 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 1631 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 43% of the irrigation seasons in 1969-1986 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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