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WILLOW CREEK DITCH NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 3801103 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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 1882-08-01 — 702nd 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: WILLOW CREEK DITCH NO 2 (1882-08-01). Immediately behind: DUROUX DITCH (1886-06-10).

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
36396.119011882-08-011952-10-24 2.00.0 CIRR 490

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 242 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 488 AF — 202% of that, and 10th 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)
1976 301 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 153 1.0
1977 206 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 53 2.0
1978 1,059 12th lowest of 15 · 438% of median 153 4.0
1979 571 11th lowest of 15 · 236% of median 144 2.0
1980 152 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 153 0.5
1981 105 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median 107 0.5
1982 104 1st lowest of 15 · 43% of median 106 0.5
1983 122 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median 123 0.5
1984 169 6th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 170 0.5
1985 152 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 154 0.5
1994 242 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 61 2.0
1995 1,448 14th lowest of 15 · 598% of median 365 2.0
1996 1,452 15th lowest of 15 · 600% of median 366 2.0
1997 1,206 13th lowest of 15 · 498% of median 304 2.0
2000 488 10th lowest of 15 · 202% of median 124 2.0

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