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Structure dossier · WDID 5901620 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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 1883-11-01 — 95th 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: LAKEVIEW PARK PIPELINE (1883-11-01). Immediately behind: BEAVER DAM DITCH (1884-04-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
12358.01883-11-011906-09-14 0.00.0 CSTOIRRFIS 45

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 38 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 19 AF — 50% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 44 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 132 0.2
2012 16 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median 75 0.1
2013 30 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 90 0.3
2014 38 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 92 0.3
2015 33 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 156 0.1
2016 73 13th lowest of 15 · 192% of median 155 0.7
2017 168 15th lowest of 15 · 442% of median 90 1.5
2018 17 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median 67 0.2
2019 141 14th lowest of 15 · 371% of median 117 0.9
2020 16 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median 38 0.2
2021 51 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median 92 0.6
2022 36 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 100 0.2
2023 52 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 91 0.4
2024 38 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 67 0.4
2025 19 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median 63 0.2

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.