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ELK CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800660 · 1 · SNOWMASS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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.
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 1907-05-01 — 375th 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: PARK DITCH (1904-09-12). Immediately behind: ELK CREEK RESERVOIR NO 2 (1907-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23187.20939 | 1907-05-01 | 1913-06-28 | 19.29 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 226AAB |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 298 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 165 AF — 55% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 240 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 92 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 912 | 15th lowest of 15 · 306% of median | 90 | 6.0 |
| 1994 | 666 | 14th lowest of 15 · 224% of median | 85 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 547 | 12th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 70 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 300 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 37 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 333 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 40 | 4.3 |
| 1998 | 661 | 13th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 97 | 4.8 |
| 1999 | 535 | 11th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 82 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 298 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 128 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 39 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 83 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 102 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 36 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 196 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 54 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 192 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 52 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 165 | 4th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 53 | 3.0 |
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