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Structure dossier · WDID 6200688 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:01 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 1962-07-19 — 624th 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: E H & Z B MARTIN PL NO 2 (1962-06-12). Immediately behind: E H & Z B MARTIN PL NO 1 (1962-10-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41107.0 | 1962-07-19 | 1969-12-02 | 12.0267 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 483 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W0152, CA9817, 97CW0217.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0152 | 2 | 1969-12-02 | S |
CA9817 | 1 | 1969-12-02 | S |
97CW0217 | 1 | 1969-12-02 | 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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 776 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1998, came in at 28 AF — 4% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 793 | 5th lowest of 7 · 102% of median | 160 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 325 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 42% of median | 164 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 910 | 6th lowest of 7 · 117% of median | 153 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 932 | 7th lowest of 7 · 120% of median | 74 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 776 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 106 | 6.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 4% of median | 8 | 2.0 |
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 | 666 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 14% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-1998 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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