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OAK CREEK WATER WORKS
Structure dossier · WDID 5800806 · 7 · OAK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:52 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 1887-07-25 — 55th 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: OAK CREEK DITCH (1887-07-25). Immediately behind: ENTERPRISE DITCH (1887-10-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13720.0 | 1887-07-25 | 1892-09-22 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | (37)36 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
10/07/1914.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
10/07/1914 | 3 | 1892-09-22 | O |
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 264 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 324 AF — 123% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 264 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 366 | 0.7 |
| 2001 | 274 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2002 | 264 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 58 | 365 | 0.7 |
| 2003 | 232 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 381 | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2004 | 231 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 342 | 366 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 267 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | — | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2006 | 279 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | — | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2007 | 302 | 14th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 365 | 0.7 |
| 2008 | 284 | 12th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | — | 366 | 0.6 |
| 2009 | 289 | 13th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | — | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 264 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 304 | 0.7 |
| 2011 | 39 | 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median | — | 61 | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 249 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | — | 305 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 231 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | — | 268 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 324 | 15th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | — | 304 | 0.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 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 | 18263 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1941-2014 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.