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WELLINGTON RES
Structure dossier · WDID 8003829 · RESERVOIR · BUFFALO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:21 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
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 1892-05-31 — 1289th most senior of the 21881 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: 8000656 (1892-05-30). Immediately behind: 8000864 (1892-09-03).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24974.15492 | 1892-05-31 | 1922-06-21 | 2747.72 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR | |
| 25723.0 | 1920-06-05 | 1922-06-21 | 1652.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR |
Legal record & documents
46 decreed actions on record across
12 court cases:
W8440, W0186, CA1839, 95CW0227, 90CW0229, 87CW0107, 15CW3012, 10CW0304, 09CW0144, 05CW0010 and 2 more below.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W8440 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
W0186 | 2 | 1922-06-21 | S |
CA1839 | 2 | 1922-06-21 | S |
95CW0227 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
90CW0229 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
87CW0107 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
15CW3012 | 6 | 1922-06-21 | S |
10CW0304 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
09CW0144 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
05CW0010 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
01CW0258 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | S |
00CW0202 | 4 | 1922-06-21 | 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 223 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2011, came in at 205 AF — 92% of that, and 1st lowest of the 3 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | — | no recorded volume | 253 | 0 | — |
| 1998 | — | no recorded volume | 508 | 0 | — |
| 1999 | — | no recorded volume | 89 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | — | no recorded volume | 1,473 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | — | no recorded volume | 198 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 1,422 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | — | no recorded volume | 633 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | — | no recorded volume | 1,655 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | — | no recorded volume | 1,680 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | — | no recorded volume | 1,533 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | — | no recorded volume | 1,051 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | — | no recorded volume | 1,098 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 223 | 2nd lowest of 3 · 100% of median | 1,021 | 19 | 9.8 |
| 2010 | 328 | 3rd lowest of 3 · 147% of median | 1,447 | 44 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 205 | 1st lowest of 3 · 92% of median | — | 50 | 3.5 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 113 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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