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SPRAGUE DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 3900829 · 1 · WEST FORK PARACHUTE CREE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1934-06-15 — 656th 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: SPRAGUE DITCH NO 1 (1934-06-15). Immediately behind: SPRAGUE DITCH NO 3 (1934-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45290.30846 | 1934-06-15 | 1974-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 37 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 1 AF — 3% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 58 | 13th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 16 | 1.9 |
| 1985 | 71 | 14th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 46 | 1.1 |
| 1986 | 25 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 34 | 0.4 |
| 1987 | 37 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 1988 | 46 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 47 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 51 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 62 | 0.4 |
| 1990 | 51 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 55 | 0.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 45 | 0.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | 5th lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 23 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4th lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 3 | 0.7 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 4 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 3 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 27 | 7th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 19 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 113 | 15th lowest of 15 · 305% of median | 77 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 4 | 0.2 |
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