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DOLORES HATCHERY PL NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 7100525 · 7 · DOLORES RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 05:25 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1965-12-01 — 126th most senior of the 279 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: DOLORES HATCHERY PL NO 1 (1948-03-01). Immediately behind: ROGERS PUMP DIVERSION (1970-07-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44194.42338 | 1965-12-01 | 1971-12-31 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | FIS |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W0330.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0330 | 1 | 1971-12-31 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,511 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 809 AF — 54% 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 | 2,428 | 13th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 236 | 14.7 |
| 2012 | 1,582 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 183 | 6.9 |
| 2013 | 3,648 | 14th lowest of 15 · 241% of median | 246 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | 4,199 | 15th lowest of 15 · 278% of median | 365 | 9.1 |
| 2015 | 1,768 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 365 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 1,460 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 366 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 1,824 | 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 358 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 1,302 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 359 | 3.6 |
| 2019 | 1,400 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 351 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 688 | 1st lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 291 | 3.6 |
| 2021 | 908 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 365 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 1,511 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 1,527 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 365 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 893 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 366 | 3.4 |
| 2025 | 809 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 304 | 4.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-101 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.006).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 13096 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1987-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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