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FROELICK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1100728 · 1 · BUFFALO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1872-12-31 — 91st 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: SILVER CREEK-RONK DITCH (1872-12-31). Immediately behind: GILLILAND DITCH NO 3 (1872-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8401.0 | 1872-12-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 41 |
| 33950.17897 | 1898-12-31 | 1969-07-09 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | A48 |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 65 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1991, came in at 42 AF — 65% of that, and 1st lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 71 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 109% of median | 180 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 89 | 4th lowest of 4 · 137% of median | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1990 | 59 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 91% of median | 100 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 42 | 1st lowest of 4 · 65% of median | 106 | 0.2 |
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