AGRICULTURAL DITCH ☆ My Water

Structure dossier · WDID 0700502 · DITCH · CLEAR CREEK · DWR record

In short

AGRICULTURAL DITCH holds 58 decreed rights on CLEAR CREEK. As of 2026-08-09, 51 of them are out of priority under a call at admin 3835.00000 placed by WANNAMAKER DITCH. Its 7 most senior rights, back to 1860-02-25, keep diverting. In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 5,806 acre-feet. That use is rising by about 469.8 acre-feet a year over 15 years (p=0.0075331703386321). It was a party to 21 court cases that also touched 35 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (13 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Current administration

● Junior rights called out — call at SWADLEY LONGAN DITCH (RALSTON CREEK, priority 1861-04-09).

● Junior rights called out — call at CLEAR CR PLATTE RIVER D (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1861-11-01).

● Junior rights called out — call at WANNAMAKER DITCH (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1860-06-30).

● Junior rights called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1885-11-20).

Which of its rights are out of priority?

Under today's controlling call (WANNAMAKER DITCH, priority 1860-06-30): 51 of this structure's 58 rights are out of priority now. (9 call(s) state no district and sit outside this one — not judged, not assumed.) In the 5 past years most like this one (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), 5 of the rights shown below were out at least one week in at least one analog year.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1860-02-25 — 2nd most senior of the 1815 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: 0700619 (1859-12-31)☆. Immediately behind: CHURCH DITCH (1860-02-25)☆.

On MAINSTEM at river mile 48.2, it is 36th of 107 down the reach. Immediately upstream: GOLDEN CITY WATER WORKS RESERVOIR☆. Immediately downstream: COORS INDUSTRIAL DITCH☆.

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 (59)

Legal record & documents

262 decreed actions on record across 32 court cases: 17CW3213, 09CW0107, 99CW0236, 96CW1117, 96CW0534, 96CW0098, 13CW3142, 12CW0126, 94CW0197, 03CW0351 and 22 more below.

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 →

How often is it out of priority?

Across the 8 seasons whose call record is complete enough to judge this structure (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026), week by week from April. Read these as counts, not rates — 8 seasons is a short record.

Structures it shares court cases with

This structure was a party to 21 court cases that also touched 35 other structures — changes of water right, augmentation plans, exchanges. Being parties to the same case does not by itself mean water moved between them; which way it ran, and how much, is in the decree.

9 further shared cases not shown — the most specific are listed first, since a case binding two structures says more than one binding a dozen.

Also a party to 3 omnibus adjudications (CA60052, 133 structures; 12CW0303, 40 structures; 96CW1117, 36 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.

Recorded use (last 15 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 5,806 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 9,536 AF — 164% of that, and 10th 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.

Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 100.0% of a median season / 100.0% dry-year.

Trends for this structure

Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+470 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.008).

Its reference gage, COORS IND DITCH: flow declining at -39.4 points of its long-term median per decade.

Every gage and reach in this district →

How good is our record of it?

Grade A (10/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.