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SPICKERMAN MIDDLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0900902 · 1 · TURKEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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.
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 1862-11-01 — 59th most senior of the 2058 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: INDEPENDENT HIGHLINE DITCH (1862-11-01). Immediately behind: SPICKERMAN MIDDLE LEFT IN STREAM AT HEAD (1862-11-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4688.0 | 1862-11-01 | 1884-02-04 | 2.316 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 6727.0 | 1868-06-01 | 1884-02-04 | 2.91 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
W8157, CA6832, CA5030, 95CW0203, 94CW0040, 04CW0197.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W8157 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
CA6832 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
CA5030 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
95CW0203 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
94CW0040 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
04CW0197 | 4 | 1884-02-04 | O |
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 →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 119 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1977, came in at 52 AF — 44% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 190 | 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 37 | 6.0 |
| 1962 | 119 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 13 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 119 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 46 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 190 | 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 40 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 182 | 13th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 32 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 161 | 11th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 35 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 151 | 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 30 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 60 | 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 16 | 2.0 |
| 1970 | 79 | 7th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 18 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 71 | 6th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 13 | 3.0 |
| 1972 | 48 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 13 | 2.0 |
| 1974 | 30 | 1st lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 16 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 173 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 17 | 1.0 |
| 1977 | 52 | 4th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 33 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-8 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.005).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 638 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-1977 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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