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FARROW AND PETERSON D

Structure dossier · WDID 7800545 · 1 · PIEDRA RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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.

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 1879-04-10 — 50th 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: LW-1901 (1868-03-02). Immediately behind: J R SCOTT DITCH (1879-04-10).

Decreed rights (6)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
10692.01879-04-101902-01-20 0.750.0 CIRRFISDOMSTK #1
10957.01879-12-311902-01-20 1.50.0 CIRR #4
12874.01885-03-311902-01-20 3.250.0 CIRR #18
13149.01885-12-311902-01-20 0.750.0 CIRRFISDOMSTK #19
14245.01888-12-311902-01-20 0.50.0 CIRR #26
41016.319061937-05-101968-12-19 9.8250.0 CIRR 68-58

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,803 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,620 AF — 90% of that, and 7th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

YearDiverted (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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 322 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median — 151 2.3
2012 443 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median — 65 5.4
2013 1,299 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median — 165 7.7
2014 640 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median — 170 3.9
2015 1,428 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median — 208 6.9
2016 1,947 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median — 176 14.9
2017 2,065 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median — 191 11.1
2018 2,031 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median — 206 11.1
2019 1,803 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median — 213 10.2
2020 1,882 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median — 273 8.5
2021 2,234 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median — 306 9.1
2022 2,335 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median — 197 16.0
2023 1,555 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median — 136 8.8
2024 3,045 15th lowest of 15 · 169% of median — 186 12.9
2025 1,620 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median — 122 11.1

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.