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FITZPATRICK D NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 6200600 · 1 · BURDECK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:51 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 1900-06-01 — 233rd 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: JOHNSON E SIDE DITCH (1897-07-05). Immediately behind: FITZPATRICK D NO 2 (1900-06-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.18414 | 1900-06-01 | 1941-04-21 | 2.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 228, 229 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA4742.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4742 | 2 | 1941-04-21 | 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 85 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 9 AF — 11% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 274 | 15th lowest of 15 · 322% of median | 166 | 1.5 |
| 1976 | 111 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 57 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 115 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 45 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 111 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 69 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 121 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 99 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 111 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 57 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 60 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 31 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 85 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 48 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 34 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 9 | 4th lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-4 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.010).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1142 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 16% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2006 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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