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RIFLE CREEK CANON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900645 · 1 · RIFLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1882-05-15 — 3rd most senior of the 1758 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: GRAND TUNNEL DITCH (1882-05-15). Immediately behind: OASIS DITCH (1882-10-10).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11823.0 | 1882-05-15 | 1889-05-11 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 2 |
| 12122.0 | 1883-03-10 | 1889-05-11 | 3.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 5 |
| 12362.0 | 1883-11-05 | 1889-05-11 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNFIRDOM | 16 |
| 12522.0 | 1884-04-13 | 1889-05-11 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24 |
| 13195.0 | 1886-02-15 | 1889-05-11 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 54 |
| 13285.0 | 1886-05-16 | 1889-05-11 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 73 |
| 13468.0 | 1886-11-15 | 1889-05-11 | 14.88 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 80 |
| 13484.0 | 1886-12-01 | 1889-05-11 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 82 |
| 15667.13771 | 1887-09-14 | 1893-04-03 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 121A |
| 15799.15019 | 1891-02-13 | 1893-04-08 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147A |
| 16241.14728 | 1890-04-28 | 1895-03-18 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 145AA |
| 18613.15071 | 1891-04-06 | 1900-12-18 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147B |
| 31785.19549 | 1903-07-11 | 1940-03-28 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | DOM8 |
| 34515.0 | 1944-07-01 | 1952-09-05 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 245 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8,591 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8,804 AF — 102% of that, and 12th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,624 | 10th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 290 | 25.4 |
| 2011 | 8,620 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 261 | 27.2 |
| 2012 | 8,591 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 366 | 24.8 |
| 2013 | 7,680 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 28 | 365 | 26.0 |
| 2014 | 7,359 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | — | 304 | 25.1 |
| 2015 | 7,737 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 91 | 269 | 26.2 |
| 2016 | 9,187 | 15th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 91 | 366 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 8,733 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 106 | 365 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 9,133 | 14th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 106 | 365 | 21.5 |
| 2019 | 8,052 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 98 | 354 | 21.2 |
| 2020 | 8,197 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 106 | 305 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 7,122 | 1st lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 106 | 214 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 7,437 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 106 | 275 | 21.2 |
| 2023 | 8,932 | 13th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 358 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 8,804 | 12th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 106 | 305 | 26.9 |
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