Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
BIG DRY CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0200873 · DITCH · BIG DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:25 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
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 1889-12-15 — 786th 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: 2300587 (1889-10-07). Immediately behind: 2305289 (1889-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14594.0 | 1889-12-15 | 1895-10-09 | 32.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 15895.14594 | 1889-12-15 | 1918-08-02 | 36.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,384 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,283 AF — 93% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 618 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 138 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 1,242 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 131 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 371 | 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 42 | 12.6 |
| 2013 | 2,862 | 11th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 112 | 46.9 |
| 2014 | 7,458 | 15th lowest of 15 · 539% of median | 269 | 46.7 |
| 2015 | 3,291 | 12th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 119 | 47.3 |
| 2016 | 3,745 | 13th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 107 | 42.2 |
| 2017 | 4,657 | 14th lowest of 15 · 336% of median | 161 | 81.4 |
| 2018 | 1,638 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 136 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 709 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 69 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 1,384 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 128 | 13.8 |
| 2021 | 918 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 86 | 16.7 |
| 2022 | 1,129 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 152 | 16.9 |
| 2023 | 2,117 | 10th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 365 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 1,283 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 305 | 17.3 |
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.