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ADAMS DITCH (4 MILE CRK)
Structure dossier · WDID 1200527 · 1 · FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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 1869-04-30 — 63rd most senior of the 1967 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: MONTEVILLE DITCH (1868-05-31). Immediately behind: 1869 DITCH (1869-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7060.0 | 1869-04-30 | 1894-02-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 43 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 265 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 160 AF — 60% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 197 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 446 | 13th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 140 | 2.4 |
| 2015 | 506 | 14th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 179 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 698 | 15th lowest of 15 · 263% of median | 195 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 373 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 109 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 265 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 74 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 208 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 95 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 70 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 41 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 193 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 71 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 301 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 98 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 405 | 12th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 121 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 389 | 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 110 | 2.0 |
| 2025 | 160 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 82 | 2.0 |
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