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Structure dossier · WDID 5900646 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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.
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 1904-04-26 — 259th 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: EAST RIVER NO1 LUCERO EL (1903-11-10). Immediately behind: LANDS END SPRING (1904-04-26).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19839.0 | 1904-04-26 | 1906-09-14 | 1.6536 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 167 |
| 28286.0 | 1927-06-12 | 1927-12-06 | 3.375 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 266 |
| 30667.19839 | 1904-04-26 | 1941-04-29 | 2.5727 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 399 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,053 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 308 AF — 29% of that, and 2nd 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 | 2,184 | 14th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 176 | 9.2 |
| 2012 | 2,509 | 15th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 186 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,007 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 203 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 994 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 177 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 861 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 176 | 7.2 |
| 2016 | 563 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 182 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 924 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 124 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 1,369 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 155 | 8.5 |
| 2019 | 1,341 | 11th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 178 | 7.1 |
| 2020 | 130 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 93 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,156 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 180 | 7.1 |
| 2022 | 1,296 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 182 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 1,053 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 119 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 2,021 | 13th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 179 | 9.7 |
| 2025 | 308 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 97 | 2.6 |
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