Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
LUI HOPPER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700654 · 1 · LAKE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1888-06-01 — 348th 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: SCHUMM NO 1 DITCH (1886-11-01). Immediately behind: LAKE CR MEADOWS WTR D IN (1888-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30894.14032 | 1888-06-01 | 1936-10-03 | 4.598 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECFIRDOMAUG | 373 |
| 30894.17657 | 1898-05-05 | 1936-10-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECFIRDOMOTH | 383 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8 AF — 160% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 44 | 11th lowest of 15 · 880% of median | — | 102 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 127 | 15th lowest of 15 · 2540% of median | 58 | 184 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 3 | 7th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 3 | 184 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 5 | 153 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 66 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1320% of median | 4 | 185 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 61 | 12th lowest of 15 · 1220% of median | 5 | 185 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 61 | 12th lowest of 15 · 1220% of median | 5 | 185 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 6 | 185 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 10th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 8 | 184 | 0.0 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.