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ELK CREEK DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3601109 · 1 · GILBERT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:13 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 1988-12-15 — 915th 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: UPPER BLUE SEGMENT G - SWAN RIVER TO DIL (1988-10-25). Immediately behind: ELK CREEK DITCH NO 1 AP (1988-12-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50753.0 | 1988-12-15 | 1988-12-31 | 0.3025 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECOTH | |
| 56094.0 | 2003-07-31 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECOTH | |
| 56094.0 | 2003-07-31 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECOTH |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
03CW0162, 88CW0425, 14CW3057.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0162 | 3 | 2003-12-31 | O, S |
88CW0425 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | S |
14CW3057 | 4 | 1988-12-31 | S |
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 2 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 50 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 94 AF — 186% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | 1st lowest of 2 · 14% of median | 31 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 94 | 2nd lowest of 2 · 186% of median | 304 | 0.2 |
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 | 335 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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