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HAWLEY AND REESE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700632 · 1 · WEST LAKE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1889-10-05 — 97th most senior of the 2162 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: ADAMS RIB WELL AR-5 (1889-10-08). Immediately behind: MANN DITCH (1890-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14596.14523 | 1889-10-05 | 1894-06-29 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 97 |
| 30894.23131 | 1913-05-01 | 1936-10-03 | 5.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 419 |
| 53691.53478 | 1996-06-01 | 1997-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 569 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 1,839 AF — 323% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,398 | 12th lowest of 15 · 246% of median | 142 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 1,438 | 14th lowest of 15 · 253% of median | 146 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 1,418 | 13th lowest of 15 · 249% of median | 144 | 5.0 |
| 2002 | 502 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 147 | 2.2 |
| 2003 | 529 | 4th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 145 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 563 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 142 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 459 | 1st lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 130 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 555 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 130 | 2.2 |
| 2007 | 596 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 147 | 2.3 |
| 2008 | 516 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 120 | 2.3 |
| 2009 | 534 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 120 | 2.4 |
| 2010 | 637 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 140 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 569 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 146 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 649 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 144 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 1,839 | 15th lowest of 15 · 323% of median | 154 | 6.8 |
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