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WATTLES AND FREEMAN D
Structure dossier · WDID 7100623 · 1 · TURKEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:32 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 1888-09-20 — 27th 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: TURKEY CREEK DITCH (TURK (1886-07-16). Immediately behind: WATTLES & FREEMAN DITCH ALTERNATE POINT (1888-09-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14143.0 | 1888-09-20 | 1892-02-01 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | D-18 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W0294, CA0473, 22CW3006.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0294 | 1 | 1892-02-01 | O |
CA0473 | 2 | 1892-02-01 | O |
22CW3006 | 1 | 1892-02-01 | O |
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 46 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1 AF — 2% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 84 | 12th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 51 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 12 | 0.3 |
| 2003 | 80 | 11th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 50 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 172 | 15th lowest of 15 · 374% of median | 65 | 1.7 |
| 2005 | 78 | 10th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 36 | 1.7 |
| 2006 | 87 | 13th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 87 | 13th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 51 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 52 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 39 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 46 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 22 | 7th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 42 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | 4th lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 26 | 0.2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | 6th lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 46 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 4th lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 77 | 0.1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 24 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-4 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.005).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 1744 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 16% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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