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ALLEN BASIN RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 5803500 · 3 · MIDDLE HUNT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:24 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 1953-10-20 — 768th 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: ALLEN BASIN SUPPLY DITCH (1953-10-20). Immediately behind: WESSELS CANAL (1954-07-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39254.37913 | 1953-10-20 | 1964-03-30 | 2249.85 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 33 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3538.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3538 | 1 | 1964-03-30 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 582 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,230 AF — 211% of that, and 11th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 273 | 4th lowest of 12 · 47% of median | 1,181 | 61 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 569 | 6th lowest of 12 · 98% of median | 1,717 | 153 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 170 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 29% of median | 951 | 17 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 597 | 8th lowest of 12 · 103% of median | 883 | 101 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 1,453 | 12th lowest of 12 · 250% of median | 865 | 361 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 1,005 | 10th lowest of 12 · 173% of median | 1,340 | 296 | 16.8 |
| 2017 | 782 | 9th lowest of 12 · 134% of median | 1,461 | 64 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 90 | 1st lowest of 12 · 16% of median | — | 19 | 4.5 |
| 2019 | 208 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 36% of median | 346 | 28 | 4.5 |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 1,319 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 293 | 5th lowest of 12 · 50% of median | 934 | 22 | 9.6 |
| 2022 | 595 | 7th lowest of 12 · 102% of median | 495 | 55 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 931 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 1,230 | 11th lowest of 12 · 211% of median | 521 | 85 | 18.8 |
| 2025 | — | no recorded volume | 372 | 0 | — |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1262 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 19% of the irrigation seasons in 1994-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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