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SPRING CREEK NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3600821 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1905-06-01 — 348th 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: SPRING CREEK NO 1 DITCH (1905-06-01). Immediately behind: SPRING CREEK NO 3 DITCH (1905-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
32075.20241905-06-011952-03-10 2.090.0 CIRR 299

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 231 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 178 AF — 77% 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)
2010 150 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median 42 2.3
2011 236 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 43 3.6
2012 38 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median 62 0.5
2013 410 12th lowest of 15 · 178% of median 65 3.6
2014 459 14th lowest of 15 · 199% of median 67 4.6
2015 117 2nd lowest of 15 · 51% of median 48 2.2
2016 171 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 36 3.3
2017 203 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 40 7.9
2018 385 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 43 8.0
2019 554 15th lowest of 15 · 240% of median 69 5.4
2020 262 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 66 2.7
2021 231 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 62 3.0
2022 182 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 50 2.4
2023 434 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median 53 5.0
2024 178 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 49 2.1

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