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Structure dossier · WDID 5900513 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1922-09-01 — 630th most senior of the 2360 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: HILDRETH WELL NO 1 (1931-06-01). Immediately behind: STRINGER DOMESTIC PL (1922-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29771.26541 | 1922-09-01 | 1932-04-28 | 1.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 270 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 368 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 443 AF — 120% of that, and 12th 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 | 141 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 157 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 320 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 147 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 234 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 153 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 216 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 98 | 1.4 |
| 2015 | 352 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 104 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 140 | 1st lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 120 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 368 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 129 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 375 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 185 | 2.4 |
| 2019 | 387 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 102 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 253 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 148 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 519 | 13th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 157 | 3.4 |
| 2022 | 594 | 14th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 167 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 632 | 15th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 136 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 432 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 110 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 443 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 137 | 2.8 |
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