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BULL CREEK RES NO 5
Structure dossier · WDID 7203894 · 3 · BULL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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 — 282nd 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 4 (1901-11-18). Immediately behind: PORCUPINE DITCH (1916-06-15).
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 | 92.3 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 34419.32368 | 1938-08-15 | 1959-07-21 | 124.42 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 56978.40014 | 1959-07-22 | 2006-12-31 | 25.42 | 0.0 | A | IRRSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 141 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 141 AF — 100% of that, and 4th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | — | no recorded volume | 513 | 0 | — |
| 1977 | — | no recorded volume | 464 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 41 | 1st lowest of 7 · 29% of median | 223 | 7 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 213 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 220 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 147 | 5th lowest of 7 · 104% of median | 298 | 71 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 180 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 90 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 64% of median | 189 | 30 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 120 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 85% of median | 340 | 31 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 273 | 7th lowest of 7 · 194% of median | 428 | 64 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 266 | 6th lowest of 7 · 189% of median | 274 | 57 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 141 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 258 | 153 | 2.4 |
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.