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FRUITA RES #3
Structure dossier · WDID 7303621 · 3 · HAY PRESS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:16 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1905-10-16 — 35th most senior of the 221 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: TOM'S CANYON SPRING NO 1 (1926-04-17). Immediately behind: GREEN SHAFT RES (1911-11-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30895.20377 | 1905-10-16 | 1941-07-25 | 45.9 | 0.0 | A | MUN |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 34 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 147 AF — 432% of that, and 5th lowest of the 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | — | no recorded volume | 36 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 5 · 94% of median | — | 22 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | 3rd lowest of 5 · 100% of median | — | 65 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | 52 | 4th lowest of 5 · 153% of median | — | 88 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | — | no recorded volume | 51 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 10 | 1st lowest of 5 · 29% of median | 52 | 61 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 147 | 5th lowest of 5 · 432% of median | 157 | 236 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 37 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 11 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 64 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 35 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 85 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 59 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 67 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | — | no recorded volume | 102 | 0 | — |
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