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STERLING RECHARGE AREA 4
Structure dossier · WDID 6402134 · RA · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1998-06-30 — 1715th most senior of the 2052 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: STERLING RECHARGE AREA 3 (1998-06-30). Immediately behind: STERLING RECHARGE AREA 5 (1998-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54237.0 | 1998-06-30 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,106 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,429 AF — 129% of that, and 10th 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 | 212 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 61 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 490 | 4th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 167 | 7.6 |
| 2012 | 364 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 148 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 160 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 40 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 1,038 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 191 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 1,314 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 228 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 1,589 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 248 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 1,082 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 200 | 4.4 |
| 2018 | 1,507 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 212 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 1,662 | 13th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 222 | 4.2 |
| 2020 | 1,885 | 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 253 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 1,106 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 164 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 681 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 147 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2,101 | 15th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 255 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 1,429 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 230 | 4.5 |
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