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STRAIGHT CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600829 · 1 · STRAIGHT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 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 1899-04-18 — 170th 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: UTE CREEK NO 3 (1897-07-15). Immediately behind: DILLON BLUE RIVER INTAKE (1899-04-18).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18005.0 | 1899-04-18 | 1910-03-02 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECDOMPWR | 34 |
| 52960.52067 | 1992-07-21 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 52960.52067 | 1992-07-21 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
95CW0077, W0012, CA1277, 86CW0313.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
95CW0077 | 1 | 1995-12-31 | S |
W0012 | 2 | 1910-03-02 | O |
CA1277 | 2 | 1910-03-02 | O |
86CW0313 | 2 | 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 904 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 2,615 AF — 289% of that, and 12th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 904 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 304 | 1.5 |
| 1974 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 362 | 5th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | — | 74 | 2.5 |
| 1983 | 423 | 6th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | — | 64 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 2,117 | 11th lowest of 15 · 234% of median | — | 305 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 92 | 4th lowest of 15 · 10% of median | — | 61 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 1,188 | 9th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 501 | 365 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 3,112 | 15th lowest of 15 · 344% of median | 2,474 | 366 | 4.8 |
| 2013 | 2,960 | 13th lowest of 15 · 327% of median | 2,411 | 365 | 9.2 |
| 2014 | 1,208 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 951 | 304 | 2.2 |
| 2015 | 506 | 7th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 422 | 61 | 4.7 |
| 2016 | 3,052 | 14th lowest of 15 · 338% of median | 2,451 | 366 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 2,615 | 12th lowest of 15 · 289% of median | 2,119 | 304 | 5.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+37 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.019).
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4398 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 1964-2017 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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