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ORIGINAL RICO FLUME

Structure dossier · WDID 7100575 · 7 · SILVER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:32 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 1882-04-04 — 85th 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: SOSSOMAN WELL (1936-06-01). Immediately behind: TROY ROSE DIVERSION (1908-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
31843.117821882-04-041968-06-11 0.282.72 CIRRMUNINDDOM 68-47

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 19 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 16 AF — 84% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1996 55 15th lowest of 15 · 290% of median 366 0.1
1997 21 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 365 0.0
1998 23 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 365 0.1
1999 19 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.0
2000 19 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 366 0.0
2001 22 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 365 0.1
2002 19 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.0
2003 18 2nd lowest of 15 · 95% of median 365 0.0
2004 20 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 366 0.0
2005 19 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.2
2006 18 2nd lowest of 15 · 95% of median 365 0.0
2007 21 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 365 0.1
2008 27 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 366 0.1
2009 18 2nd lowest of 15 · 95% of median 365 0.0
2010 16 1st lowest of 15 · 84% of median 304 0.0

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