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CRYSTAL VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000533 · 1 · CRYSTAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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 1888-05-10 — 1232nd most senior of the 4661 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: KOHLER WASTE WATER D (1887-04-11). Immediately behind: VOGEL DITCH (1888-08-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21263.1401 | 1888-05-10 | 1914-06-23 | 13.35 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A13 |
| 31924.1401 | 1888-05-10 | 1954-03-20 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J32 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,020 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 719 AF — 70% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 652 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 77 | 13.0 |
| 2011 | 1,169 | 12th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 106 | 13.0 |
| 2012 | 375 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 35 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 958 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 71 | 14.5 |
| 2014 | 1,172 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 74 | 14.5 |
| 2015 | 1,100 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 123 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 1,103 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 136 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 1,280 | 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 81 | 16.0 |
| 2018 | 768 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 78 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 1,020 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 70 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 1,146 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 86 | 14.5 |
| 2021 | 989 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 51 | 12.6 |
| 2022 | 1,512 | 15th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 193 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 743 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 38 | 13.9 |
| 2024 | 719 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 120 | 6.9 |
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