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PALISADE TOWN PL EXT(CW)
Structure dossier · WDID 7200815 · 7 · RAPID CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:14 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 1885-01-13 — 12th 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: GRAPEVINE DITCH (1885-01-13). Immediately behind: PALISADE TOWN PL (RAPID) (1885-01-13).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12797.0 | 1885-01-13 | 1890-02-07 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNDOM | 28 |
| 14222.0 | 1888-12-08 | 1890-02-07 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNDOM | 83 |
| 34419.27007 | 1923-12-11 | 1959-07-21 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 669 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA8303, CA4962.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
CA4962 | 2 | 1890-02-07 | 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 881 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,923 AF — 218% of that, and 14th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 588 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 747 | 365 | 2.1 |
| 2011 | 444 | 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 355 | 365 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 827 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 187 | 366 | 4.4 |
| 2013 | 881 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 233 | 365 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 1,066 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | — | 365 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 1,012 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | — | 365 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 539 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | — | 366 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 1,267 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | — | 365 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 633 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 365 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 2,233 | 15th lowest of 15 · 254% of median | — | 365 | 8.1 |
| 2020 | 794 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 252 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 739 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | — | 365 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 1,867 | 13th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | — | 365 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 1,743 | 12th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | — | 365 | 5.2 |
| 2024 | 1,923 | 14th lowest of 15 · 218% of median | — | 305 | 10.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+88 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.023).
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 10387 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1978-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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