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Structure dossier · WDID 6000755 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1946-08-01 — 925th 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: GARDNER WELL NO 3 (1946-06-15). Immediately behind: JOSEPH WELL NO 1 (1948-07-31).

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
35276.01946-08-011952-07-10 4.00.0 CCOMFIS 424

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 249 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 133 AF — 53% of that, and 3rd 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)
1999 370 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median 181 1.6
2000 249 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 175 1.2
2012 19 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median 67 2.4
2013 147 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 143 1.8
2014 276 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 162 2.4
2015 225 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 194 1.7
2016 167 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 165 1.8
2017 207 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 157 1.5
2018 130 2nd lowest of 15 · 52% of median 96 1.2
2019 393 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median 123 3.9
2020 295 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 124 2.1
2021 503 15th lowest of 15 · 202% of median 188 2.5
2022 258 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 166 1.2
2023 264 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 138 4.1
2024 133 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median 88 2.1

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