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MINERAL CREEK NO 3 D
Structure dossier · WDID 6200686 · 1 · MINERAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1908-06-20 — 254th 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: SAMMONS POWDERHORN D (1908-06-02). Immediately behind: CHILDS PARK DITCH (1910-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.21355 | 1908-06-20 | 1941-04-21 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 272 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 327 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 122 AF — 37% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 234 | 7th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 72 | 4.3 |
| 2011 | 327 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 66 | 7.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 25 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 497 | 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 53 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 1,059 | 14th lowest of 15 · 324% of median | 69 | 8.3 |
| 2015 | 490 | 10th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 70 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 1,089 | 15th lowest of 15 · 333% of median | 78 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 538 | 13th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 100 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 526 | 12th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 57 | 6.5 |
| 2020 | 483 | 9th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 93 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 136 | 5th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 76 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 63 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 91 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 206 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 84 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 122 | 4th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 55 | 2.7 |
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