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SHORTLINE D COW CREEK
Structure dossier · WDID 6800729 · 1 · COW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1886-06-25 — 121st 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: VANCE DITCH (1885-08-01). Immediately behind: IRIS WELL (1886-12-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13325.0 | 1886-06-25 | 1897-05-15 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 101 |
| 14337.0 | 1889-04-02 | 1897-05-15 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 121 |
| 29554.14337 | 1889-04-02 | 1942-05-11 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 54 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 240 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 161 AF — 67% of that, and 5th 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 | 43 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 334 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 102 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 452 | 14th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 126 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 201 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 46 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 139 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 52 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 950 | 15th lowest of 15 · 396% of median | 143 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 376 | 13th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 78 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 103 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 44 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 231 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 66 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 159 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 124 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 240 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 109 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 313 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 138 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 322 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 99 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 271 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 106 | 2.0 |
| 2025 | 161 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 141 | 1.9 |
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