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EAGLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000703 · 1 · DIRTY GEORGE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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 in line
Priority 1908-06-06 — 1311th 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: BLACK SAGE DITCH (1908-05-30). Immediately behind: HOMESTEAD DITCH (1908-08-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21341.0 | 1908-06-06 | 1914-06-23 | 9.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A101 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 184 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,047 AF — 569% of that, and 15th 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 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 10 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 528 | 13th lowest of 15 · 287% of median | 88 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | 5th lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 20 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 184 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 45 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 294 | 10th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 41 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 78 | 6th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 32 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 314 | 11th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 68 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 250 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 51 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 728 | 14th lowest of 15 · 396% of median | 90 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 87 | 7th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 23 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | 4th lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 10 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 328 | 12th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 72 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 1,047 | 15th lowest of 15 · 569% of median | 95 | 7.9 |
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