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DRY CREEK DAVIDSON DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0600569 · DITCH · SOUTH BOULDER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (96d5528) — 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: no administrative call record for this basin.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1863-05-01 — 74th most senior of the 1867 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: COTTONWOOD DITCH 2 (1863-04-15). Immediately behind: 0602417 (1863-05-01).

On SOUTH BOULDER CREEK at river mile 17.3, it is 39th of 58 down the reach. Immediately upstream: HUNTER/HINE POND. Immediately downstream: BURKES RES 1.

Position on the modelled network, not a claim about whose water this is — a stream carries water from many rights at once, and diverted water returns to it.

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
4869.01863-05-011882-06-02 16.7480.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,406 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 134 AF — 10% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2008 1,984 15th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 113 15.7
2009 1,335 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 99 12.4
2010 1,226 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 86 14.6
2011 1,946 13th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 116 12.0
2012 1,604 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 106 13.3
2013 1,953 14th lowest of 15 · 139% of median 107 16.7
2014 1,483 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 140 9.7
2015 469 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 64 5.7
2016 970 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 69 13.2
2017 1,750 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 106 17.7
2018 880 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 72 12.6
2019 1,482 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 98 12.0
2020 1,406 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 87 14.5
2021 584 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median 53 10.0
2025 134 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median 16 6.3

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