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HIGHLINE DITCH (SLATE CREEK)
Structure dossier · WDID 3600659 · 1 · SLATE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:15 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 1980-10-31 — 844th 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: YONLEY I SPRING (1940-12-31). Immediately behind: LAKE ALVIN (1980-10-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49673.47786 | 1980-10-31 | 1986-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIROTH |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
95CW0089, 86CW0359, CA1805, 95CW0173, 12/23/1920, CA1277.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
95CW0089 | 2 | 1986-12-31 | S |
86CW0359 | 1 | 1986-12-31 | S |
CA1805 | 1 | 1952-03-10 | S |
95CW0173 | 3 | 1952-03-10 | O, S |
12/23/1920 | 1 | 1920-12-23 | S |
CA1277 | 1 | 1910-03-02 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 362 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 437 AF — 121% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 86 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 26 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | 270 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 104 | 3.6 |
| 2007 | 397 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 63 | 4.6 |
| 2008 | 286 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 39 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 264 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 36 | 5.9 |
| 2010 | 362 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 95 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 166 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 47 | 2.7 |
| 2017 | 458 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 86 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 403 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 80 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 862 | 14th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 157 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 735 | 13th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 120 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 258 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 87 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 118 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 59 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 891 | 15th lowest of 15 · 246% of median | 107 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 437 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 65 | 5.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4623 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 36% of the irrigation seasons in 1964-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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