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WATERFALL DITCH AP

Structure dossier · WDID 3000928 · 1 · FALLS 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 (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 1875-10-10 — 107th 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: WATERFALL DITCH PIPELINE (1875-10-10). Immediately behind: REID DITCH (1876-01-01).

Decreed rights (3)

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
9414.01875-10-101923-11-08 0.00.0 CIRRDOM W-1
56613.02004-12-312004-12-31 0.00.0 CIRRRECFIRDOMSTKOTH
56978.405421960-12-312006-12-31 2.00.0 CIRRFISFIRDOMSTKOTH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 254 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 132 AF — 52% of that, and 5th 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 277 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 365 2.7
2012 203 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 366 3.8
2013 155 6th lowest of 15 · 61% of median 354 0.8
2014 106 4th lowest of 15 · 42% of median 365 1.1
2015 304 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 365 2.5
2016 408 13th lowest of 15 · 161% of median 366 2.5
2017 481 14th lowest of 15 · 189% of median 365 3.4
2018 49 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median 190 0.2
2019 494 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 273 2.5
2020 302 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 353 3.0
2021 68 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median 365 0.3
2022 77 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median 365 0.2
2023 396 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median 365 2.5
2024 254 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 366 1.5
2025 132 5th lowest of 15 · 52% of median 304 0.5

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.