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CRYSTAL SPRINGS RANCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4002331 · 1 · NORTH FORK GUNNISON RIVE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1909-12-20 — 2738th 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: BROWN WASTEWATER DITCH (1905-04-01). Immediately behind: CROCKER WASTEWATER DITCH (1910-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48577.21903 | 1909-12-20 | 1983-12-31 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 48759.0 | 1983-07-01 | 1983-12-31 | 6.533 | 1.467 | C | FIS |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,568 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 3,033 AF — 118% of that, and 10th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 466 | 1st lowest of 13 · 18% of median | 61 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 2,592 | 8th lowest of 13 · 101% of median | 365 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 2,459 | 6th lowest of 13 · 96% of median | 304 | 5.7 |
| 2008 | 1,928 | 4th lowest of 13 · 75% of median | 187 | 7.0 |
| 2009 | 2,050 | 5th lowest of 13 · 80% of median | 195 | 7.1 |
| 2010 | 2,996 | 9th lowest of 13 · 117% of median | 242 | 8.9 |
| 2011 | 3,104 | 11th lowest of 13 · 121% of median | 304 | 5.9 |
| 2012 | 1,803 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 70% of median | 168 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 1,788 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 70% of median | 183 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 3,905 | 13th lowest of 13 · 152% of median | 365 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 3,546 | 12th lowest of 13 · 138% of median | 365 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 2,568 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 305 | 7.3 |
| 2017 | 3,033 | 10th lowest of 13 · 118% of median | 178 | 11.4 |
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