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DRIFT CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001118 · 1 · DRIFT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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 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 1907-07-15 — 1351st 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: R AND K DITCH (1907-02-15). Immediately behind: DRAKE-CAMPBELL DITCH (1908-03-01).
Decreed rights (8)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24894.21014 | 1907-07-15 | 1920-08-28 | 1.875 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | B27 |
| 25807.21031 | 1907-08-01 | 1930-02-10 | 1.63 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G50 |
| 25807.24988 | 1918-06-01 | 1930-02-10 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G91 |
| 29260.27311 | 1924-10-10 | 1937-05-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H135 |
| 31924.21014 | 1907-07-15 | 1954-03-20 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J121 |
| 31924.27311 | 1924-10-10 | 1954-03-20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J182 |
| 32232.0 | 1938-04-01 | 1954-03-20 | 2.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J230 |
| 38064.37755 | 1953-05-15 | 1964-01-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | K110 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 638 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 360 AF — 56% 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 | 729 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 126 | 4.9 |
| 2011 | 1,437 | 15th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 175 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 559 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 95 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 562 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 106 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 984 | 13th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 127 | 7.5 |
| 2015 | 880 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 152 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 961 | 12th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 119 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 1,111 | 14th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 134 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 430 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 111 | 5.5 |
| 2019 | 638 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 118 | 7.6 |
| 2020 | 709 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 124 | 6.0 |
| 2021 | 320 | 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 170 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 341 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 58 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 405 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 54 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 360 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 86 | 2.9 |
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