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WHINNERY ELK CR&NARROW G
Structure dossier · WDID 6200794 · 1 · ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:31 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 1880-09-01 — 16th 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: RADEKA DITCH (1880-09-01). Immediately behind: THOMAS ROACH DITCH #2 (1880-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11202.0 | 1880-09-01 | 1904-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 17 |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA3516, 06CW0061, W3141, CA1319.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3516 | 1 | 1925-07-11 | S |
06CW0061 | 3 | 1925-07-11 | O, S |
W3141 | 1 | 1904-03-28 | O |
CA1319 | 2 | 1904-03-28 | O |
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 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 0 AF — —% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 60 | 9th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 1991 | 1,377 | 15th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 120 | 8.0 |
| 1992 | 791 | 13th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 134 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 701 | 12th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 124 | 4.1 |
| 1995 | 1,175 | 14th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 138 | 6.5 |
| 1996 | 204 | 11th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 67 | 10th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 39 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-29 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
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 | 1273 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 18% 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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