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DEERING SPRING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800773 · 1 · QUARTZ CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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 1954-09-13 — 783rd most senior of the 1505 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: MCDONOUGH RES NO 2 (1954-07-22). Immediately behind: VOUGA RESERVOIR (1955-04-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38241.0 | 1954-09-13 | 1956-04-16 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | 368 |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 58 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 29 AF — 50% of that, and 5th lowest of the 10 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 | 140 | 9th lowest of 10 · 244% of median | 195 | 0.4 |
| 1974 | 126 | 7th lowest of 10 · 219% of median | 195 | 0.4 |
| 2000 | 86 | 6th lowest of 10 · 150% of median | 81 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 21% of median | 76 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 152 | 10th lowest of 10 · 264% of median | 81 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 31% of median | 155 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 130 | 8th lowest of 10 · 226% of median | 62 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4th lowest of 10 · 44% of median | 48 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 29 | 5th lowest of 10 · 50% of median | 60 | 0.2 |
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