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Structure dossier · WDID 6800612 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1878-05-01 — 237th most senior of the 1293 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: WEST PHILLIPS DITCH (1876-06-10). Immediately behind: STANTON SLOUGH DITCH (1878-05-13).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29554.10348 | 1878-05-01 | 1942-05-11 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 11 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 860 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 610 AF — 71% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 757 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 271 | 5.9 |
| 2012 | 347 | 1st lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 185 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 776 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 299 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 809 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 365 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 1,025 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 329 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 657 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 348 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 974 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 352 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 904 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 294 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 1,141 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 365 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 1,121 | 13th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 328 | 10.7 |
| 2021 | 860 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 340 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 836 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 325 | 9.8 |
| 2023 | 1,856 | 15th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 286 | 14.7 |
| 2024 | 920 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 288 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 610 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 304 | 3.2 |
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