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SPRAGUE DITCH NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 3900830 · 1 · WET FORK WEST FORK PARAC · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 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 — 657th 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 2 (1934-06-15). Immediately behind: DAVIS SPRING (1934-07-31).

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
45290.308461934-06-151974-12-31 0.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 11 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 51 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 57 AF — 112% of that, and 8th lowest of the 11 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)
1986 68 9th lowest of 11 · 133% of median 51 0.7
1987 54 7th lowest of 11 · 106% of median 55 0.5
1989 100 10th lowest of 11 · 196% of median 105 0.5
1990 51 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median 103 0.2
1991 25 4th lowest of 11 · 49% of median 72 0.2
2007 1 1st lowest of 11 · 2% of median 3 0.3
2008 1 1st lowest of 11 · 2% of median 5 0.1
2013 128 11th lowest of 11 · 251% of median 86 0.8
2014 1 1st lowest of 11 · 2% of median 4 0.2
2017 47 5th lowest of 11 · 92% of median 35 0.7
2019 57 8th lowest of 11 · 112% of median 65 0.4

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