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Structure dossier · WDID 5801316 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:48 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 1920-06-01 — 1461st 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: GRAVES SPRING 7 (1916-07-01). Immediately behind: SOASH SPRING 2 (1925-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47116.25719 | 1920-06-01 | 1979-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
79CW0045.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
79CW0045 | 1 | 1979-12-31 | 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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 627 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 907 AF — 145% of that, and 10th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 123 | 5th lowest of 11 · 20% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 34 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 5% of median | 24 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 93 | 4th lowest of 11 · 15% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 79 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 13% of median | 41 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 627 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 160 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 652 | 7th lowest of 11 · 104% of median | 163 | 4.8 |
| 2022 | 837 | 9th lowest of 11 · 134% of median | 219 | 6.6 |
| 2023 | 1,464 | 11th lowest of 11 · 234% of median | 185 | 6.3 |
| 2024 | 733 | 8th lowest of 11 · 117% of median | 186 | 5.9 |
| 2025 | 907 | 10th lowest of 11 · 145% of median | 200 | 5.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 11 recorded years (+19 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.008).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1292 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 13% of the irrigation seasons in 1980-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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