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BACON MESA SPRING D NO 1

Structure dossier · WDID 7200994 · 1 · WALLACE GULCH · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1897-04-10 — 1152nd 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: BACON MESA SPRING D NO 3 (1897-04-10). Immediately behind: BACON MESA SPRING D NO 2 (1897-04-10).

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
46020.172671897-04-101976-12-31 0.360.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 43 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 274 AF — 637% of that, and 15th 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)
1997 110 12th lowest of 15 · 256% of median 155 0.4
1998 43 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 155 0.1
2002 20 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median 40 0.3
2005 31 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median 153 0.1
2006 32 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 110 0.2
2007 124 13th lowest of 15 · 288% of median 174 0.4
2009 38 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 142 0.2
2010 47 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 127 0.2
2011 91 11th lowest of 15 · 212% of median 132 0.4
2012 43 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 132 0.3
2013 51 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 166 0.2
2014 28 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median 144 0.1
2016 18 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median 83 0.2
2023 153 14th lowest of 15 · 356% of median 149 0.6
2024 274 15th lowest of 15 · 637% of median 128 2.0

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.