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CULHANE SPRING AND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001386 · 4 · MEADOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:45 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 in line
Priority 1910-12-31 — 1133rd 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: CLARK LITTLE CASCADE #4 (1981-12-30). Immediately behind: SITTNER WINDMILL WELL (1936-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48212.22279 | 1910-12-31 | 1982-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.25 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 10 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1992, came in at 2 AF — 20% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 16 | 7th lowest of 10 · 160% of median | 93 | 0.2 |
| 1984 | 12 | 6th lowest of 10 · 120% of median | 84 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 23 | 9th lowest of 10 · 230% of median | 61 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | 5th lowest of 10 · 80% of median | 46 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 42 | 10th lowest of 10 · 420% of median | 141 | 0.2 |
| 1988 | 16 | 7th lowest of 10 · 160% of median | 167 | 0.1 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 23 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 21 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 31 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 4th lowest of 10 · 20% of median | 16 | 0.1 |
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