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Structure dossier · WDID 5801100 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1933-06-01 — 723rd 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: COLLINS SEEP WASTE DITCH (1919-05-10). Immediately behind: FINGER ROCK WATER SYSTEM PL 3 (1947-12-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37688.30467 | 1933-06-01 | 1957-06-22 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 414 |
| 58804.5435 | 1998-10-21 | 2011-12-31 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | OTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 236 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 238 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 59 | 2.5 |
| 1966 | 129 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 33 | 2.5 |
| 1967 | 132 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 33 | 2.5 |
| 1978 | 188 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 39 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 273 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 56 | 2.5 |
| 2012 | 159 | 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 51 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 265 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 66 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 307 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 63 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 211 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 60 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 331 | 14th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 71 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 236 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 52 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 312 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 43 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 607 | 15th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 67 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 185 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 33 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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