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Structure dossier · WDID 6801026 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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 1900-12-01 — 681st 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: LITTLE BIRD SPRING PL (1892-06-01). Immediately behind: WILSON SPG NO1 (1906-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47481.18597 | 1900-12-01 | 1980-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 82 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2004, came in at 87 AF — 106% of that, and 5th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 425 | 8th lowest of 8 · 518% of median | 102 | 4.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 13% of median | 38 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 77 | 4th lowest of 8 · 94% of median | 103 | 0.7 |
| 2000 | 117 | 7th lowest of 8 · 143% of median | 128 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 114 | 6th lowest of 8 · 139% of median | 118 | 2.1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 1st lowest of 8 · 4% of median | 20 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 17% of median | 51 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 87 | 5th lowest of 8 · 106% of median | 121 | 1.1 |
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