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MESA CREEK RES NO 4
Structure dossier · WDID 7203874 · 3 · MESA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:48 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 1892-09-28 — 170th 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: MESA CREEK RES NO 3 (1890-09-20). Immediately behind: KIGGINS GOYN DITCH (1894-11-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22729.15612 | 1892-09-28 | 1912-07-22 | 277.76 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGSNO | |
| 22729.1816 | 1899-09-20 | 1912-07-22 | 199.13 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGSNO | |
| 49704.0 | 1986-01-31 | 1986-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUG |
Legal record & documents
31 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
98CW0242, 86CW0015, CA1927, 96CW0301, 94CW0311, 88CW0384, 85CW0595, 01CW0181.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
98CW0242 | 4 | 1998-12-31 | S |
86CW0015 | 6 | 1986-12-31 | O, S |
CA1927 | 2 | 1912-07-22 | S |
96CW0301 | 4 | 1912-07-22 | S |
94CW0311 | 3 | 1912-07-22 | S |
88CW0384 | 4 | 1912-07-22 | S |
85CW0595 | 4 | 1912-07-22 | S |
01CW0181 | 4 | 1912-07-22 | 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 12 years on record)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | — | no recorded volume | 320 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | — | no recorded volume | 195 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | — | no recorded volume | 308 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | — | no recorded volume | 161 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 139 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 43 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 59 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 153 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 33 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 95 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 152 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 199 | 0 | — |
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 511 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 5% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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