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Structure dossier · WDID 7800617 · 1 · LITTLE PAGOSA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:22 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 1898-10-01 — 69th 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: JOHN TAYLOR WELL #2 (1900-08-03). Immediately behind: BIG PAGOSA DITCH (1900-06-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012.17806 | 1898-10-01 | 1912-11-13 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #141 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA0308.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0308 | 1 | 1912-11-13 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,351 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 994 AF — 74% of that, and 3rd 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.
| 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,286 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | — | 129 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 1,351 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 182 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 810 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | — | 135 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 1,299 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 148 | 13.6 |
| 2015 | 1,234 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 164 | 7.7 |
| 2016 | 1,569 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 154 | 16.7 |
| 2017 | 1,833 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | — | 155 | 20.8 |
| 2018 | 1,203 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 168 | 7.7 |
| 2019 | 445 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | — | 116 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 1,470 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | — | 158 | 9.5 |
| 2021 | 1,554 | 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | — | 222 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 3,474 | 15th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | — | 304 | 7.8 |
| 2023 | 1,650 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | — | 169 | 8.9 |
| 2024 | 1,545 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 165 | 7.2 |
| 2025 | 994 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | — | 164 | 6.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 11903 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 90% of the irrigation seasons in 1964-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.