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CRYSTAL POWER PLANT
Structure dossier · WDID 6200578 · 9 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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 in line
Priority 1957-11-13 — 598th most senior of the 1980 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: BLUE MESA POWER PLANT (1957-11-13). Immediately behind: MORROW POINT POWER PLANT (1957-11-13).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39398.0 | 1957-11-13 | 1960-03-30 | 3000.0 | 0.0 | C | PWR | 446 |
| 40569.39844 | 1959-02-02 | 1965-10-28 | 0.0 | 3000.0 | C | PWR | 629 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 188,527 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 76,182 AF — 40% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 360,269 | 14th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 365 | 1824.6 |
| 2012 | 277,035 | 9th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 366 | 1350.9 |
| 2013 | 142,434 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 365 | 1123.2 |
| 2014 | 183,019 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 365 | 1833.4 |
| 2015 | 188,527 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 304 | 1558.6 |
| 2016 | 317,913 | 13th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 366 | 1995.1 |
| 2017 | 290,145 | 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 334 | 1902.0 |
| 2018 | 385,483 | 15th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 365 | 1367.0 |
| 2019 | 310,633 | 12th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 365 | 1917.0 |
| 2020 | 301,248 | 11th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 366 | 1685.0 |
| 2021 | 28,449 | 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 365 | 527.0 |
| 2022 | 42,788 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 365 | 759.0 |
| 2023 | 55,522 | 4th lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 365 | 690.0 |
| 2024 | 38,369 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 366 | 706.0 |
| 2025 | 76,182 | 5th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 304 | 895.0 |
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