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SETTLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000778 · 1 · SURFACE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1881-12-17 — 7th 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: FORREST DITCH (1881-12-17). Immediately behind: ADDITIONAL SPRING NO 12 (1881-12-17).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11674.0 | 1881-12-17 | 1889-06-17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1 |
| 12503.0 | 1884-03-25 | 1889-06-17 | 5.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
| 20501.14413 | 1889-06-17 | 1907-09-28 | 10.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 773 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 995 AF — 129% 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 | 808 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 0 | 154 | 5.4 |
| 2011 | 830 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 133 | 5.5 |
| 2012 | 505 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | — | 115 | 4.4 |
| 2013 | 483 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | — | 88 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 1,017 | 14th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | — | 134 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 688 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 163 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 693 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 284 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 996 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | — | 238 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 101 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | — | 32 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 1,036 | 15th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | — | 193 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 551 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | — | 101 | 5.4 |
| 2021 | 441 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | — | 77 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 773 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 124 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 881 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 147 | 5.2 |
| 2024 | 995 | 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | — | 163 | 8.5 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.