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SPRING CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801020 · 1 · FRENCHMAN 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 1902-05-01 — 531st 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: HORN DITCH (1902-05-01). Immediately behind: SPRINGS CREEK DITCH (1902-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.19113 | 1902-05-01 | 1936-08-25 | 1.07 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 347 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 432 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 580 AF — 134% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 252 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 79 | 1.8 |
| 2006 | 321 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 91 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 432 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 77 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 603 | 14th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 82 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 793 | 15th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 120 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 447 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 96 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 449 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 77 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 505 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 100 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 228 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 46 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 537 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 80 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 263 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 60 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 96 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 36 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 357 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 72 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 183 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 28 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 580 | 13th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 96 | 3.4 |
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