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BRIDAL VEIL PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 6000538 · 7 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:21 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 1901-06-15 — 160th most senior of the 2893 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: PRIESTLY DITCH NO 2 (1900-08-01). Immediately behind: BOULDER PLACER DITCH (1901-07-29).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18793.0 | 1901-06-15 | 1911-10-31 | 25.0 | 0.0 | C | COMIND | 19 |
| 52126.0 | 1992-09-18 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 6.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLD |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
92CW0176, CA1621.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
92CW0176 | 1 | 1992-12-31 | S |
CA1621 | 1 | 1911-10-31 | O |
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 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 304 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 160 AF — 53% of that, and 1st lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 423 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 139% of median | 61 | 3.5 |
| 1994 | 2,110 | 4th lowest of 4 · 695% of median | 304 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 184 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 61% of median | 45 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 160 | 1st lowest of 4 · 53% of median | 153 | 1.2 |
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 563 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 1993-2016 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.