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GEORGETOWN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0700681 · PIPELINE · LEAVENWORTH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (4ab2507) — 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?
In the 5 past years whose flows most resemble this one (2022, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2005): this structure's most junior right was out of priority in 12 of the next 12 weeks at least once; its most senior right in 12. Its other 1 rights fall between those ends, each taken in priority order.
| Week starting | Most junior right out in | Most senior right out in |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-09 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-08-16 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-08-23 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-08-30 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-09-06 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-09-13 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-09-20 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
| 2026-09-27 | 5 of 5 analog years | 3 of 5 |
How this outlook is built, and what it is not
Flows at LEAVENWORTH CREEK AT MOUTH NEAR GEORGETOWN, CO around 2026-08-09 (the newest reading on file) sit at 70% of that gage's own median for this window. The 5 most similar past years with a complete administration record (1950–2026) supply the history; each week asks whether a call senior to a given right's admin number was in force that week of the analog year, using the same controlling-call-per-day computation as the Legal tab. Priority is per RIGHT: a structure with several decrees loses its most junior first, and the columns above are the two ends of its range. 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 1866-01-10 — 72nd 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: RHODES SOUTH DITCH (1865-07-05). Immediately behind: 0700676 (1866-12-09).
On LEAVENWORTH CREEK at river mile 10.1, it is 4th of 4 down the reach. Immediately upstream: GREEN LAKE DITCH. Nothing modelled downstream of it on this reach.
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 (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5854.0 | 1866-01-10 | 1914-10-09 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOMOTH | |
| 54411.0 | 1998-12-21 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUNAUG | |
| 54411.0 | 1998-12-21 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUG |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 206 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 218 AF — 106% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 247 | 14th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 366 | 0.9 |
| 2009 | 185 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 164 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 302 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 49 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 61 | 0.7 |
| 2015 | 193 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 365 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 171 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 305 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 112 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 214 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 264 | 15th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 204 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2020 | 236 | 12th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 366 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 244 | 13th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 365 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 208 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 365 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 206 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 223 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 366 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 218 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 304 | 0.6 |
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.