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FOREST SPRING DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 2900600 · 1 · RIO BLANCO · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1923-12-31 — 199th most senior of the 853 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: TREASURE PASS NORTH FEEDER (1922-08-01). Immediately behind: FAWN GULCH DITCH (1926-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
28645.270271923-12-311962-04-19 0.250.0 CIRRFISDOM #287

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 60 AF — 200% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1995 30 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 103 0.2
1996 7 3rd lowest of 15 · 23% of median 49 0.1
1997 44 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 152 0.3
1998 44 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 138 0.2
1999 50 14th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 126 0.3
2000 19 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 128 0.1
2001 31 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 121 0.2
2002 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 15 0.0
2003 6 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median 40 0.1
2004 22 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 99 0.2
2005 44 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 157 0.2
2006 28 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 133 0.2
2008 16 4th lowest of 15 · 53% of median 70 0.2
2009 32 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 143 0.2
2010 60 15th lowest of 15 · 200% of median 153 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.