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Structure dossier · WDID 0600691 · DITCH · BOULDER CREEK · DWR record · probably BOULDER CITY OF’s (matched on DWR’s contact or an EPA intake name; verify below)
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Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-10-12 22:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
The record and the river
In short
L F SPICER DITCH holds 1 decreed right on BOULDER CREEK. As of 2026-09-27, 1 of them are out of priority under a call at admin 3744.00000 placed by HOWELL DITCH. 7 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. In a median year over its last 7 recorded years it diverts 65 acre-feet.
Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (7 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.
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Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.
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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv
What is in the bundle
rights.csv— every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.annual_use.csv— recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.curtailment_now.csv— each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.court_cases.csv— the cases attached to its rights.co_parties.csv— the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.call_climatology.csv— how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.README.txt— provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (diversion). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at RURAL DITCH (BOULDER CREEK, priority 1862-05-09).
● Fully called out — call at HOWELL DITCH (BOULDER CREEK, priority 1860-04-01).
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Under today's controlling call (HOWELL DITCH, priority 1860-04-01): 1 of this structure's 1 rights are out of priority now. (7 call(s) state no district and sit outside this one — not judged, not assumed.) In the 4 past years most like this one (2024, 2023, 2022, 2025), 1 of the rights shown below were out at least one week in at least one analog year.
| Right (priority) | Now | Analog years out | Majority out by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1898-10-01 27930 | ● out | 4 of 4 | 2026-09-27 |
How this table is built, and what it is not
“Now” compares each right's admin number with today's most senior applicable active call. The outlook uses flows at BASELINE RESERVOIR OUTLET around 2026-09-27 (the newest reading on file) — currently 164% of that gage's own median for this window — to pick the 4 most similar past years with complete administration records (2004–2026). Only calls that verifiably apply count: DWR's own district statements in the call's set comments, a caller located in this district, or — on the same stream, where DWR records both stream miles (measured from the mouth) — a caller DOWNSTREAM of this structure. An upstream senior cannot demand water this diversion never deprives it of. Calls that state nothing and sit elsewhere are counted as unjudged rather than assumed, which also means the verified record is shorter than the raw one: early calls rarely state districts. For each week it finds the most senior call then in force; a right is out in that week exactly when that call is senior to it, which is why one line prices every right and juniors can be out while seniors keep diverting. “Majority out by” is the first week out in more than half the analog years. A frequency among named historical years, not a probability from a model, and not a forecast of what the division engineer will do. It says how often years whose flow resembled this one were under a call senior to this right in a given week. Snowpack, storage, and the actual administrative decisions of a given season are not modelled. Check the analog years listed: if they do not resemble this year to you, the outlook does not either.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1898-10-01 — 303rd 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: 0600677 (1895-09-30). Immediately behind: HAYDEN LAKE RES (1905-07-21).
On MAINSTEM at river mile 12.1, it is 15th of 78 down the reach. Immediately upstream: PHIL HOGAN SEEPAGE DITCH. Immediately downstream: HARPE SPRING.
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. | Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. | Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27930.17806 | 1898-10-01 | 1953-09-28 | 10.0 cfs | 0.0 | — | Irrigation | CA12111 |
Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.
How much of this decree was in priority, by day
A right is in priority on a day when it is senior to every call administering this structure. Of its 10.0 cfs decreed rate, the average day over the last 6 year(s) had 2.234 cfs in priority (22% of the decree). No call in effect is a free river — that was 9.5% of days.
On 60 days some rights were in priority and others were not — seniority splits a decree rather than switching it off. Calls are set and released at a time of day, not at midnight, so a day is counted by the hour: a call setting at 4pm costs that day a third of its rate, not all of it. A call began or ended mid-day on 26 of these days.
This is paper water. It is the decreed rate that was in priority — not water that was physically in the stream, and not water this structure diverted. A ditch can be in priority for 50 cfs on a day the creek carries five. What that distinction means →
| Year | Mean in priority (Apr–Sep) | Share of decree | Free-river days | Days fully out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.0 cfs | 0% | 0 | 260 |
| 2025 | 1.07 cfs | 11% | 15 | 286 |
| 2024 | 3.18 cfs | 32% | 90 | 215 |
| 2023 | 4.35 cfs | 44% | 69 | 222 |
| 2022 | 0.29 cfs | 3% | 0 | 341 |
| 2021 | 2.0 cfs | 20% | 0 | 63 |
Show the last 120 days, day by day
| Date | In priority | Controlling call |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-11 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-10 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-09 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-08 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-07 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-06 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-05 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-04 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-03 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-02 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-10-01 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-30 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-29 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-28 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-27 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-26 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-25 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-24 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-23 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-22 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-21 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-20 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-19 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-18 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-17 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-16 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-15 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-14 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-13 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-12 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-11 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-10 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-09 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-08 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-07 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-06 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER WELD CTY DITCH, 1861-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-05 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-04 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-03 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-02 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-09-01 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-31 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-30 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-29 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-28 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-27 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-26 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-25 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-24 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-23 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-22 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-21 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-20 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-19 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-18 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-17 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-16 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-15 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-14 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-13 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-12 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-11 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-10 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | HOWELL DITCH, 1860-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-09 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-08 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-07 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-06 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-05 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-04 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-03 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-05-10 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-02 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-08-01 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-31 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-30 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-29 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-28 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-27 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-26 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-25 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-24 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-23 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-22 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-21 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-20 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-19 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-18 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-17 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-16 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-15 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-14 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-13 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-12 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-11 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-10 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-09 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-08 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-09-15 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-07 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER CR MIN FLOW C, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-06 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER CR MIN FLOW C, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-05 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | BOULDER CR MIN FLOW C, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-04 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-03 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-02 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-07-01 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-30 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1862-10-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-29 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1863-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-28 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-27 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-26 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-25 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1863-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-24 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1863-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-23 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-22 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-21 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-20 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-19 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1868-05-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-18 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1870-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-17 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1870-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-16 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1870-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
| 2026-06-15 | 0.0 cfs (0%) | RURAL DITCH, 1870-06-01 · Boulder Creek · same source, at or above the calling point |
How this is worked out, and what it cannot tell you
- This is a decreed rate that was in priority -- paper water, not water that was available or diverted.
- Augmentation plans, exchanges and substitute supply plans let a structure divert lawfully while out of priority; none are modelled.
- Calls on the river this source flows into are included without a position test, so curtailment can be over-reported where the calling point sits above the confluence.
- DWR's administration is the authority. Scored against DWR's own call analysis, this method agreed on 95.5% of 85,822 structure-days (2026-08-29).
- Calls considered for this structure: 4251, of which 3564 sit on a river it flows into.
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA12111.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA12111 | 1 | 1953-09-28 | S |
11 imaged documents on DWR’s shelf for this structure — 2 water-court documents across 1 case, including 1 decree. Every row opens the scanned PDF at DWR. Listing as of 2026-09-03.
- Decree in case CA12111 ↗ · imaged 2008-02-25 · 242 pages
“Imaged” is the date DWR’s archive filed the scan, which is often years after the court acted (a 1911 decree can be imaged in 2011). The court’s own date is the adjudication date in the rights table.
Court record (2)
| Imaged | Case | Type | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-21 | CA12111 |
TRANSFER WATER RIGHT (CHANGE OWNER, ADDRESS) | 2 | open ↗ |
| 2008-02-25 | CA12111 |
DECREE | 242 | open ↗ |
Division filings (8)
| Date | Type | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-03 | Correspondence GREEN CARD RETURNED (CERTIFIED LETTER DELIVERED) | open ↗ | |
| 2020-11-23 | Orders ORDER OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER | 2 | open ↗ |
| 2016-12-27 | Field Forms Structure Status & Inventory Report | open ↗ | |
| 2016-12-27 | Pictures Structure Status & Inventory Report | open ↗ | |
| 2012-06-22 | Correspondence SPICER DITCH RESPONSE TO SHOW CAUSE ORDER | 2 | open ↗ |
| 2012-05-31 | Orders SHOW CAUSE ORDER – L.F. SPICER DITCH (WDID 0600691) | 5 | open ↗ |
| 2012-05-29 | Orders ORDER – CEASE AND DESIST UNLAWFUL DIVERSIONS INTO THE MCGINN DITCH | 3 | open ↗ |
| 2012-02-22 | Orders SHOW CAUSE ORDER McGinn Ditch Diversions (WDID 0600586) Spicer... | 3 | open ↗ |
Maps (1)
| Date | Title | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-11 | SPICER, L. F. - DITCH | 1 | open ↗ |
Imaged documents at DWR. DWR keeps the scanned documents for this structure — decrees, rulings, plats, correspondence — in its Laserfiche archive. Open the list directly: imaged documents for 0600691 ↗ (indexed by structure, not by case — the cases listed above appear within the list).
Other DWR records for this structure: DWR’s page for this structure ↗ — net amounts, water rights, transactions & adjudication history, and diversion records, all on that one page. On this site: the district’s full legal picture →
How often is it out of priority?
Across the 12 seasons whose call record is complete enough to judge this structure (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), week by week from April.
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12 of 12 seasons
Snow sets the clock here. In the driest third of snow years (4 seasons), the call settled in for the season around July 15 (June 3 to July 15 across those years); in 1 of them it never lifted at all. In the middle third (4 seasons), the call settled in for the season around June 24 (June 17 to July 8 across those years); in 1 of them it never lifted at all. In the wettest third (4 seasons), the call settled in for the season around June 24 (June 17 to June 24 across those years); in 2 of them it never lifted at all.
Snow years ranked by the district’s April 1 snow-water percentile across 3 SNOTEL sites; 12 seasons carry both a snow reading and a judgeable call record. How the past played out, not a forecast.
Why only 12 seasons, and what the bars mean
Each bar is one week: how many of those seasons that right was out of priority under a call this site can lawfully attribute to this structure. Green is never, red is every season on record.
The short record is a property of DWR's data, not of the river. A call only counts against a structure when we can establish it applies — by the districts named in its set comments, or by stream mile on the same source. DWR did not begin stating affected districts routinely until about 2015: fewer than one call in ten can be judged before then, against roughly two in three since. A season we cannot judge is not a season without calls, so it is dropped rather than counted as quiet — 11 seasons dropped here.
This is a frequency over past seasons, not a forecast. It says nothing about what the division engineer will do this year.
Structures it shares court cases with
Also a party to 1 omnibus
adjudication
(CA12111, 77 structures).
Those settled many rights at once and are listed separately: they say
these structures were adjudicated together, not that they deal with
each other.
How this is derived
Every court action DWR records for a structure
carries its case number. Where one case number appears in the records of
several structures, those structures were parties to the same proceeding.
This is read straight from the cached transaction tables — no
document was interpreted to build it. Case numbers are validated against
the known Colorado formats first: the case column also contains stray
dates (10/04/1884 appears on 98 Clear Creek rows), and
treating one as a case number would invent a shared proceeding between
60 unrelated structures. Cases spanning more than
12 structures are separated out as omnibus
adjudications. The filing year comes from the case number, not from the
row's adjudication date — that date belongs to the water right the
action describes, so a 2006 case legitimately carries a 1989 date.
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 65 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 574 AF — 883% of that, and 7th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 65 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 31 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 65 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 38 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 67 | 5th lowest of 7 · 103% of median | 33 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 53 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 82% of median | 40 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 36 | 1st lowest of 7 · 55% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 151 | 6th lowest of 7 · 232% of median | 45 | 9.1 |
| 2022 | 574 | 7th lowest of 7 · 883% of median | 62 | 8.6 |
Trends for this structure
Its reference gage, Baseline Reservoir Outlet: no clear flow trend.
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | stale | 287 measured days, but newest is 1539 day(s) before the data's end (target 450) |
| record continuity | sparse | 22% of the irrigation seasons in 2016-2022 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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