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VOLK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001798 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1975-07-15 — 2399th 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: MCINTYRE HOME WELL NO 1 (1975-07-09). Immediately behind: ALLEN WASTE WATER DITCH (1975-07-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45851.0 | 1975-07-15 | 1975-12-31 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 315 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 346 AF — 110% of that, and 10th 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 | 290 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 54 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 656 | 14th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 126 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 307 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 76 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 407 | 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 114 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 211 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 76 | 2.2 |
| 2015 | 240 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 61 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 333 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 70 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 587 | 13th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 114 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | 201 | 1st lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 315 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 84 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 223 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 67 | 3.2 |
| 2021 | 203 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 88 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 398 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 94 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 700 | 15th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 117 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 346 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 73 | 4.0 |
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