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INDIAN CREEK DITCH 2
Structure dossier · WDID 0801280 · DITCH · INDIAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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
● 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).
● Fully called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).
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 1872-07-03 — 395th 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: 0801128 (1872-06-01). Immediately behind: 0801353 (1872-12-30).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8220.0 | 1872-07-03 | 1883-12-10 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 3 AF — 8% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 43 | 6th lowest of 10 · 118% of median | 38 | 1.0 |
| 1953 | 393 | 10th lowest of 10 · 1077% of median | 68 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 28 | 4th lowest of 10 · 77% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 38% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 2 | 1st lowest of 10 · 6% of median | 2 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 369 | 8th lowest of 10 · 1011% of median | 62 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 30 | 5th lowest of 10 · 82% of median | 15 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 115 | 7th lowest of 10 · 315% of median | 34 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 377 | 9th lowest of 10 · 1033% of median | 131 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 8% of median | 9 | 0.3 |
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