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SAMMONS POWDERHORN D
Structure dossier · WDID 6200739 · 1 · POWDERHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 1908-06-02 — 253rd 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: MENDENHALL DITCH (1908-06-01). Immediately behind: MINERAL CREEK NO 3 D (1908-06-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.21337 | 1908-06-02 | 1941-04-21 | 6.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 271 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 410 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 522 | 11th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 46 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 814 | 15th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 75 | 8.8 |
| 2012 | 94 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 44 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 198 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 35 | 4.8 |
| 2014 | 524 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 76 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 410 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 5.8 |
| 2017 | 470 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 73 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 14 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 468 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 78 | 3.6 |
| 2020 | 194 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 62 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 383 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 51 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 586 | 13th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 102 | 3.6 |
| 2023 | 315 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 50 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 684 | 14th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 91 | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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