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EAST WHITE CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600901 · 1 · WHITE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1884-06-16 — 133rd most senior of the 1044 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: FROHLICH & PAUL DITCH (1883-06-05). Immediately behind: DEER CREEK DITCH (1884-07-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14408.12586 | 1884-06-16 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 102 |
| 16603.0 | 1895-06-16 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 179 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 68 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 60 AF — 88% of that, and 6th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 77 | 7th lowest of 12 · 112% of median | 98 | 0.4 |
| 1941 | 18 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 26% of median | 10 | 1.0 |
| 1942 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 31% of median | 27 | 0.4 |
| 1944 | 97 | 9th lowest of 12 · 142% of median | 62 | 0.8 |
| 1945 | 48 | 5th lowest of 12 · 70% of median | 31 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 97 | 9th lowest of 12 · 142% of median | 62 | 0.8 |
| 1949 | 97 | 9th lowest of 12 · 142% of median | 62 | 0.8 |
| 1961 | 103 | 12th lowest of 12 · 150% of median | 77 | 0.8 |
| 1970 | 36 | 4th lowest of 12 · 53% of median | 19 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 89 | 8th lowest of 12 · 130% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 60 | 6th lowest of 12 · 88% of median | 27 | 2.0 |
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