Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
SPIRIT SPRING NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 7205336 · 4 · KIMBALL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1989-03-10 — 1538th 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: SPIRIT SPRING NO 1 (1989-03-10). Immediately behind: SPIRIT SPRING NO 3 (1989-03-10).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51499.50838 | 1989-03-10 | 1991-12-31 | 0.033 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 6 AF — 67% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 12 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 9 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 144 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 9th lowest of 12 · 122% of median | 183 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 100 | 12th lowest of 12 · 1111% of median | 154 | 0.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | 9th lowest of 12 · 122% of median | 185 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | 1st lowest of 12 · 56% of median | 93 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 138 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 89% of median | 122 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | 8th lowest of 12 · 111% of median | 152 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 89% of median | 140 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 89% of median | 125 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 12 | 11th lowest of 12 · 133% of median | 184 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 67% of median | 98 | 0.0 |
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.