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HEATH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4100533 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1885-02-21 — 62nd most senior of the 1104 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: SHAVANO VALLEY DITCH (1884-11-21). Immediately behind: WILSON-DAVIS DITCH (1885-03-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12836.0 | 1885-02-21 | 1890-06-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 58, 8 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 603 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,035 AF — 172% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 688 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 147 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 511 | 4th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 133 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 245 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 73 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 249 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 52 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 481 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 138 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 890 | 14th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 132 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 789 | 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 131 | 5.9 |
| 2018 | 860 | 13th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 148 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 562 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 102 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 672 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 121 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 574 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 85 | 4.2 |
| 2022 | 568 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 112 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 603 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 89 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 811 | 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 127 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 1,035 | 15th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 155 | 5.7 |
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