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HOWARD SALT RIVER
Structure dossier · WDID 7200705 · 1 · EAST SALT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:09 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1908-11-01 — 487th most senior of the 2166 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: DAVENPORT DITCH (E SALT) (1908-03-18). Immediately behind: HARVEY WELL NO 2 (1934-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30963.21489 | 1908-11-01 | 1934-12-17 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 194 |
| 35222.0 | 1946-06-08 | 1952-09-05 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 252 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
98CW0277, CA4004, CA3037.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
98CW0277 | 1 | 1998-12-31 | S |
CA4004 | 1 | 1952-09-05 | S |
CA3037 | 1 | 1934-12-17 | 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 136 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 99 AF — 73% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 504 | 14th lowest of 15 · 371% of median | 136 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 637 | 15th lowest of 15 · 468% of median | 226 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 83 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 23 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 115 | 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 84 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 183 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 98 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 338 | 11th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 177 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 368 | 12th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 218 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 180 | 9th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 98 | 2.1 |
| 2008 | 99 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 111 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 136 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 64 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 383 | 13th lowest of 15 · 282% of median | 216 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 84 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 70 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 13 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 59 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 51 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 99 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 62 | 1.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-19 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.042).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2663 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 29% of the irrigation seasons in 1973-2015 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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