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Structure dossier · WDID 5800689 · 1 · WATSON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:49 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 1894-10-02 — 593rd 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: HEART LAKE RESERVOIR (1892-07-17). Immediately behind: WHALEY WELL (1935-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31145.16346 | 1894-10-02 | 1935-07-31 | 1.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 121 |
| 33782.29371 | 1930-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 2.77 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 334EF |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA2475, CA2075.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2475 | 1 | 1946-09-14 | S |
CA2075 | 1 | 1935-07-31 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 339 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 118 AF — 35% of that, and 3rd 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 | 1,003 | 15th lowest of 15 · 296% of median | 77 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 549 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 53 | 7.0 |
| 2013 | 428 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 85 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 367 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 57 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 502 | 12th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 69 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 577 | 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 109 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 187 | 6th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 88 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 162 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 99 | 3.2 |
| 2019 | 339 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 118 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 136 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 47 | 6.8 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 16 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 246 | 7th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 66 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 387 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 96 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 118 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 63 | 2.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-41 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.002).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6175 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 31% of the irrigation seasons in 1933-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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