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TROUT CREEK DITCH CO
Structure dossier · WDID 1100649 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1872-12-17 — 88th most senior of the 1489 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: RIVERSIDE-ALLEN DITCH (1872-11-01). Immediately behind: HARVARD D (COTTONWD CRK) (1872-12-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8387.0 | 1872-12-17 | 1890-06-19 | 19.98 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,187 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 6,312 AF — 122% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6,572 | 15th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 316 | 18.6 |
| 2010 | 4,780 | 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 218 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 5,437 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 211 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 6,127 | 13th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 213 | 18.6 |
| 2013 | 5,187 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 224 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 5,923 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 217 | 19.3 |
| 2015 | 5,437 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 216 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 4,711 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 258 | 22.4 |
| 2017 | 5,006 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 304 | 17.6 |
| 2018 | 5,018 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 213 | 17.1 |
| 2019 | 5,287 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 194 | 18.4 |
| 2020 | 3,616 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 194 | 17.0 |
| 2021 | 1,552 | 1st lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 239 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 5,178 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 306 | 20.1 |
| 2023 | 6,312 | 14th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 212 | 22.9 |
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