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ICE LAKE OUTLET DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3000575 · 1 · ELBERT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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.

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 1953-09-24 — 554th most senior of the 2277 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: ICE LAKE INLET DITCH (1953-09-24). Immediately behind: ICE LAKE RESERVOIR (1953-09-24).

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
37887.01953-09-241966-03-21 0.980.0 CIRRFISDOM 65-69

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 31 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 20 AF — 64% of that, and 4th 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)
2011 29 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 162 0.2
2012 22 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 159 0.2
2013 85 14th lowest of 15 · 274% of median 208 0.3
2014 80 13th lowest of 15 · 258% of median 254 0.3
2015 38 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 125 0.2
2016 31 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 139 0.2
2017 4 2nd lowest of 15 · 13% of median 59 0.1
2018 64 12th lowest of 15 · 206% of median 193 0.3
2019 21 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 154 0.2
2020 12 3rd lowest of 15 · 39% of median 80 0.2
2021 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 28 0.0
2022 137 15th lowest of 15 · 442% of median 213 0.5
2023 35 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 168 0.8
2024 48 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median 213 0.6
2025 20 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median 163 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.