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SQUIRE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1301030 · 1 · LAKE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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 1878-05-01 — 255th most senior of the 1017 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: MOW DITCH (1878-04-01). Immediately behind: JOHN DUCKETT DITCH (1878-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10348.0 | 1878-05-01 | 1894-02-03 | 1.31 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 7 |
| 11809.0 | 1882-05-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.65 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 105 AF — 875% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 56 | 12th lowest of 15 · 467% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 111 | 14th lowest of 15 · 925% of median | 71 | 0.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 23 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | 117 | 15th lowest of 15 · 975% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 12 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 5 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 52 | 11th lowest of 15 · 433% of median | 21 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 21 | 9th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 9 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 26 | 10th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 16 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 105 | 13th lowest of 15 · 875% of median | 84 | 0.6 |
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