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BULL CREEK RES NO 4
Structure dossier · WDID 7203893 · 3 · BULL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:52 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 1901-11-18 — 281st 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: BULL CREEK RES NO 3 (1895-06-18). Immediately behind: BULL CREEK RES NO 5 (1901-11-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25246.18949 | 1901-11-18 | 1920-08-16 | 156.26 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOMAUG | |
| 34419.29493 | 1930-10-01 | 1959-07-21 | 156.43 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 57212.0 | 2006-08-22 | 2006-12-31 | 112.31 | 0.0 | A | IRRFIRSTKWLD |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
14CW3103, 06CW0261, CA8303, CA3681, 02CW0292, 01CW0337.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
14CW3103 | 2 | 2006-12-31 | S |
06CW0261 | 1 | 2006-12-31 | S |
CA8303 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
CA3681 | 1 | 1920-08-16 | S |
02CW0292 | 2 | 1920-08-16 | S |
01CW0337 | 1 | 1920-08-16 | 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 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 55 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 56 AF — 102% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | — | no recorded volume | 403 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 409 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 425 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 431 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 284 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 424 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 54 | 1st lowest of 2 · 98% of median | 281 | 23 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 304 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 276 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 56 | 2nd lowest of 2 · 102% of median | 425 | 153 | 0.4 |
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 | fragment | 176 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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