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SPRING GULCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3100691 · 1 · SPRING GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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 1953-06-30 — 506th most senior of the 1037 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: SHUPE SPRING AND PL (1940-12-31). Immediately behind: FREDERICK RESERVOIR NO 2 (1969-05-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45290.37801 | 1953-06-30 | 1974-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 35 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 15 AF — 43% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 70 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 56 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 97 | 15th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 77 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 86 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 88 | 13th lowest of 15 · 251% of median | 75 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 38 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 64 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 21 | 7th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 34 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 90 | 14th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 61 | 2.2 |
| 2011 | 50 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 79 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 6 | 4th lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 28 | 0.7 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 18 | 0.1 |
| 2014 | 36 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 35 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 54 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 88 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 15 | 6th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 59 | 0.5 |
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