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COW CAMP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600577 · 1 · COW CAMP CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1897-06-01 — 166th most senior of the 1247 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: BELLS BLUE RIVER DITCH (1897-06-01). Immediately behind: MILLER NO 1 DITCH (1897-07-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17319.0 | 1897-06-01 | 1910-03-02 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 105 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 6 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 21 AF — 350% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10 | 10th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 113 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 181 | 0.1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 78 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 127 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 92 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 6 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 171 | 0.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 148 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 106 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 26 | 14th lowest of 15 · 433% of median | 105 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 58 | 15th lowest of 15 · 967% of median | 164 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 127 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | 11th lowest of 15 · 333% of median | 101 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 28 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | 13th lowest of 15 · 383% of median | 155 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 21 | 12th lowest of 15 · 350% of median | 53 | 0.2 |
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