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MANUELLO WELL 1-20452-F
Structure dossier · WDID 6405861 · 2 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:46 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 1895-03-11 — 90th 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: DESOTO BROS WELL 5-20451 (1895-03-11). Immediately behind: HARMONY DITCH 1 (1895-04-28).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16506.0 | 1895-03-11 | 1902-09-29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 45735.0 | 1975-03-21 | 1975-12-31 | 4.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W7944.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W7944 | 3 | 1975-12-31 | O, 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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 188 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 238 AF — 127% of that, and 12th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 144 | 5th lowest of 14 · 77% of median | 89 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 120 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 64% of median | 66 | 1.9 |
| 2013 | 310 | 14th lowest of 14 · 165% of median | 122 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 116 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 62% of median | 35 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 194 | 9th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 72 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 179 | 6th lowest of 14 · 95% of median | 99 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 193 | 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 101 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 201 | 10th lowest of 14 · 107% of median | 82 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 137 | 4th lowest of 14 · 73% of median | 51 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 208 | 11th lowest of 14 · 111% of median | 105 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 183 | 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median | 59 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 243 | 13th lowest of 14 · 129% of median | 95 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 104 | 1st lowest of 14 · 55% of median | 39 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 238 | 12th lowest of 14 · 127% of median | 82 | 1.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1097 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 2011-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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