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EAGLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800647 · 1 · EAST SOPRIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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 in line
Priority 1888-03-17 — 233rd most senior of the 4788 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: DEARING DITCH (1888-03-12). Immediately behind: EAGLE DITCH ALTERNATE POINT NO 1 (1888-03-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13956.0 | 1888-03-17 | 1889-05-11 | 0.13 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 186 |
| 24928.19814 | 1904-04-01 | 1918-05-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 221A-1 |
| 58439.57415 | 2007-03-13 | 2010-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | RECFISAUG |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 212 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1969, came in at 209 AF — 99% of that, and 5th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 287 | 8th lowest of 10 · 135% of median | 146 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 76 | 1st lowest of 10 · 36% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 1960 | 145 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 68% of median | 121 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 215 | 6th lowest of 10 · 101% of median | 110 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 185 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 87% of median | 94 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 185 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 87% of median | 63 | 1.7 |
| 1965 | 392 | 9th lowest of 10 · 185% of median | 137 | 1.5 |
| 1967 | 249 | 7th lowest of 10 · 118% of median | 104 | 1.3 |
| 1968 | 485 | 10th lowest of 10 · 229% of median | 83 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 209 | 5th lowest of 10 · 99% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
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