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SPRING BRANCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700816 · 1 · GROUSE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1898-10-27 — 230th 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: POTTS DITCH (1898-10-27). Immediately behind: CAMPBELL DITCH (1899-06-05).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20427.17832 | 1898-10-27 | 1907-06-04 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 220 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 82 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 70 | 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 118 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 125 | 10th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 168 | 13th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 130 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 119 | 9th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 242 | 15th lowest of 15 · 295% of median | 123 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 149 | 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 180 | 14th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 139 | 11th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 72 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 82 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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