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PARKER WELL 1-14157
Structure dossier · WDID 6406008 · 2 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:30 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 1954-07-31 — 725th 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: HENDERSON WELL 1-R-16396 (1954-07-31). Immediately behind: SCOFIELD WELL 19901-R (1954-07-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38197.0 | 1954-07-31 | 1972-12-31 | 2.8822 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 55882.55357 | 2001-07-24 | 2003-12-31 | 3.11 | 2.46 | C | AUG |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
20CW3153, 03CW0209, W5175.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
20CW3153 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | S |
03CW0209 | 2 | 2003-12-31 | S |
W5175 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | 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 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 211 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 242 AF — 115% of that, and 8th lowest of the 12 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 362 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 139 | 4th lowest of 12 · 66% of median | — | 54 | 2.4 |
| 2012 | 346 | 10th lowest of 12 · 164% of median | 346 | 98 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 190 | 6th lowest of 12 · 90% of median | 190 | 76 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 21 | 1st lowest of 12 · 10% of median | — | 6 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 349 | 11th lowest of 12 · 165% of median | — | 73 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 232 | 7th lowest of 12 · 110% of median | — | 70 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 38 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 18% of median | — | 17 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 389 | 12th lowest of 12 · 184% of median | — | 94 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 148 | 5th lowest of 12 · 70% of median | — | 41 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 309 | 9th lowest of 12 · 146% of median | — | 109 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 88 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 42% of median | — | 19 | 2.8 |
| 2024 | 242 | 8th lowest of 12 · 115% of median | — | 63 | 2.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 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 | 720 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 15% of the irrigation seasons in 2002-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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