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BARNES-MEUSER AND SHAW D
Structure dossier · WDID 7800507 · 1 · WEMINUCHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1903-12-31 — 113th most senior of the 366 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: BARNES DITCH (1903-07-01). Immediately behind: GALLEGOS HOME DITCH (1905-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28645.19722 | 1903-12-31 | 1962-04-19 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #250 |
| 28645.28275 | 1927-06-01 | 1962-04-19 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #289 |
| 41016.33419 | 1941-07-01 | 1968-12-19 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 68-80 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,256 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,236 AF — 98% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,708 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 133 | 11.7 |
| 2012 | 1,814 | 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 177 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,485 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 135 | 9.1 |
| 2014 | 1,256 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 143 | 11.1 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 60 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 1,250 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 136 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 870 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 129 | 9.4 |
| 2018 | 1,122 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 177 | 9.4 |
| 2019 | 1,031 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 148 | 9.9 |
| 2020 | 703 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 161 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 1,460 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 185 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 2,142 | 15th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 152 | 17.5 |
| 2023 | 1,717 | 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 156 | 9.6 |
| 2024 | 1,836 | 14th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 159 | 14.1 |
| 2025 | 1,236 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 98 | 13.9 |
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