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OLE CREEK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3700740 · 1 · SQUAW CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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 1895-06-01 — 283rd 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: JOHNSON & HOWARD DITCH (1900-05-14). Immediately behind: MINNIE V DITCH (1902-04-15).

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
21971.165881895-06-011910-07-25 1.00.0 CIRR 283

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 64 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 14 AF — 22% of that, and 2nd 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)
2006 53 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 118 0.3
2007 59 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 126 0.3
2008 110 10th lowest of 15 · 172% of median 120 0.9
2009 189 14th lowest of 15 · 295% of median 125 0.9
2010 142 12th lowest of 15 · 222% of median 150 0.8
2011 145 13th lowest of 15 · 227% of median 123 0.8
2012 49 3rd lowest of 15 · 77% of median 149 0.3
2014 125 11th lowest of 15 · 195% of median 159 0.4
2015 64 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 130 0.2
2016 209 15th lowest of 15 · 327% of median 134 1.2
2017 56 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 148 0.5
2018 52 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 170 0.3
2019 68 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 93 0.6
2020 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2021 14 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 139 0.1

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