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Structure dossier · WDID 5900944 · 1 · CURECANTI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:09 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 1955-06-30 — 860th 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: LOWER STOCK WELL (1955-05-01). Immediately behind: HUNT DOMESTIC WELL (1955-07-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38531.0 | 1955-06-30 | 1957-06-20 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 527 |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
W2493, CA5590, 21CW3067, CA5289, 05CW0233.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2493 | 2 | 1961-01-27 | S |
CA5590 | 1 | 1961-01-27 | S |
21CW3067 | 1 | 1961-01-27 | S |
CA5289 | 1 | 1957-06-20 | S |
05CW0233 | 2 | 1957-06-20 | 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 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 59 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 21 AF — 36% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 194 | 7th lowest of 8 · 329% of median | — | 56 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 253 | 8th lowest of 8 · 429% of median | — | 55 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 128 | 6th lowest of 8 · 217% of median | — | 62 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 20 | 1st lowest of 8 · 34% of median | 161 | 47 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | — | no recorded volume | 122 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 56 | 4th lowest of 8 · 95% of median | 56 | 84 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 62 | 5th lowest of 8 · 105% of median | 62 | 75 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 32 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 54% of median | 32 | 35 | 0.8 |
| 2025 | 21 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 36% of median | 21 | 41 | 0.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 8 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 | 455 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 7% of the irrigation seasons in 1996-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.