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SUNSHINE SPRING NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 6001120 · 4 · SOUTH FORK SAN MIGUEL RI · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:01 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 1947-08-18 — 1178th 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: SUNSHINE SPRING NO 1 (1947-08-18). Immediately behind: SUNSHINE SPRING NO 3 (1947-08-18).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44559.35658 | 1947-08-18 | 1972-12-31 | 0.03 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRDOM | |
| 49673.49415 | 1985-04-17 | 1986-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | HUO | |
| 55882.51408 | 1990-10-01 | 2003-12-31 | 0.09 | 0.0 | C | STORECFISFIRWLD |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
03CW0239, W1565.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0239 | 4 | 2003-12-31 | S |
W1565 | 3 | 1972-12-31 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 22 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 16 AF — 73% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 47 | 14th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 363 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 39 | 13th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 2012 | 33 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 284 | 0.1 |
| 2013 | 27 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 174 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 18 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 181 | 0.1 |
| 2016 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 202 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 198 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 265 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 32 | 11th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 115 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 51 | 15th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | 208 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 169 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 193 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-1 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.041).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3580 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2009-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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