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Structure dossier · WDID 4001240 · 1 · DIRTY GEORGE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1902-11-15 — 1285th 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: DITCH NO 5A DITCH (1902-06-15). Immediately behind: LOWE DITCH (1903-03-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21263.19311 | 1902-11-15 | 1914-06-23 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A71 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 173 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 947 AF — 547% 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 | 143 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 58 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 249 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 87 | 2.4 |
| 2012 | 87 | 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 40 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 180 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 35 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 325 | 14th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 85 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 261 | 12th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 96 | 2.6 |
| 2016 | 241 | 10th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 75 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 151 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 69 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 173 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 108 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 15 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 38 | 4th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 16 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 288 | 13th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 109 | 4.3 |
| 2024 | 947 | 15th lowest of 15 · 547% of median | 141 | 4.3 |
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