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CORNET CREEK WATER RIGHT
Structure dossier · WDID 6000566 · 7 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1886-06-15 — 14th 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: LILYLANDS CANAL (1885-10-02). Immediately behind: MILL CREEK WATER RIGHT (1886-06-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13315.0 | 1886-06-15 | 1911-10-31 | 4.28 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOM | 3 |
| 16954.0 | 1896-06-01 | 1911-10-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOM | 11 |
| 30604.25841 | 1920-10-01 | 1939-11-01 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOM | 303 |
| 46435.0 | 1977-02-18 | 1977-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFIRDOM |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 304 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1990, came in at 87 AF — 29% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 117 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 38% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 720 | 8th lowest of 11 · 237% of median | 363 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 724 | 10th lowest of 11 · 238% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 720 | 8th lowest of 11 · 237% of median | 363 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 724 | 10th lowest of 11 · 238% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 486 | 7th lowest of 11 · 160% of median | 249 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 302 | 4th lowest of 11 · 99% of median | 276 | 0.8 |
| 1987 | 304 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 303 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 366 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 301 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 99% of median | 306 | 0.5 |
| 1990 | 87 | 1st lowest of 11 · 29% of median | 89 | 0.5 |
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