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PLUM CREEK DIVERSION
Structure dossier · WDID 0800525 · DITCH · PLUM CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Junior rights called out — call at LITTLETON BOAT CHUTE NO 10 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1994-12-02).
● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).
● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
Which of its rights are out of priority?
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 1985-12-17 — 9372nd 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: 0817003 (1985-12-01). Immediately behind: 0802486 (1985-12-17).
Decreed rights (13)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49659.0 | 1985-12-17 | 1985-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDFISFIRDOMSTKAUGWLD | |
| 56542.0 | 2004-10-21 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 56561.0 | 2004-11-09 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUG | |
| 56561.0 | 2004-11-09 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUG | |
| 59169.5909 | 2011-10-13 | 2012-12-31 | 0.83 | 2.17 | C | MUN | |
| 59169.5909 | 2011-10-13 | 2012-12-31 | 13.0 | 319.3 | A | MUN | |
| 59522.0 | 2012-12-18 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUG | |
| 59522.0 | 2012-12-18 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUNAUG | |
| 60508.0 | 2015-08-31 | 2015-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUNAUG | |
| 60508.0 | 2015-08-31 | 2015-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUG | |
| 61358.0 | 2017-12-28 | 2017-12-31 | 0.0 | 40.0 | C | MUNAUG | |
| 61420.0 | 2018-02-28 | 2018-12-31 | 0.0 | 2618.0 | A | MUN | |
| 61420.0 | 2018-02-28 | 2018-12-31 | 0.0 | 10.0 | C | MUN |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 332 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,046 AF — 616% of that, and 13th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 26 | 1st lowest of 13 · 8% of median | 8 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 331 | 6th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 113 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 154 | 4th lowest of 13 · 46% of median | 96 | 2.6 |
| 2016 | 238 | 5th lowest of 13 · 72% of median | 154 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 66 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 20% of median | 29 | 2.7 |
| 2018 | 51 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 15% of median | 27 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 426 | 8th lowest of 13 · 128% of median | 176 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 332 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 214 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 1,437 | 12th lowest of 13 · 433% of median | 365 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 458 | 9th lowest of 13 · 138% of median | 365 | 14.3 |
| 2023 | 1,327 | 11th lowest of 13 · 400% of median | 365 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 1,011 | 10th lowest of 13 · 304% of median | 366 | 10.6 |
| 2025 | 2,046 | 13th lowest of 13 · 616% of median | 304 | 10.1 |
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