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ADAMS DITCH (OAK CREEK)
Structure dossier · WDID 1200718 · 1 · OAK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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 1898-08-20 — 399th 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: FREEK WELL NO 1 (1917-08-31). Immediately behind: GRAVESTOCK DITCH (1874-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24873.17764 | 1898-08-20 | 1918-05-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 60 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 60 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 21 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 92 | 10th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 32 | 1.5 |
| 1980 | 110 | 11th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 38 | 1.5 |
| 1981 | 60 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 31 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 274 | 15th lowest of 15 · 457% of median | 95 | 1.5 |
| 1983 | 250 | 13th lowest of 15 · 417% of median | 86 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 259 | 14th lowest of 15 · 432% of median | 89 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 222 | 12th lowest of 15 · 370% of median | 114 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
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