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S E DILLON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4100555 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:35 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 1882-10-01 — 32nd 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: SUPPLY DITCH (1882-05-07). Immediately behind: STARK VOLKMAN DITCH (1882-10-12).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11962.0 | 1882-10-01 | 1890-06-30 | 0.99 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1, 20 |
| 29038.22736 | 1912-04-01 | 1941-12-04 | 2.01 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 189 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA4573, CA0149.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4573 | 2 | 1941-12-04 | O, S |
CA0149 | 1 | 1890-06-30 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 385 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 357 AF — 93% of that, and 7th 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 | 673 | 14th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 108 | 11.7 |
| 2012 | 445 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 81 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 484 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 86 | 5.3 |
| 2014 | 191 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 66 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 911 | 15th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 79 | 13.6 |
| 2016 | 564 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 99 | 8.4 |
| 2017 | 624 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 96 | 13.6 |
| 2018 | 311 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 46 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 516 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 102 | 6.8 |
| 2020 | 385 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 6.4 |
| 2021 | 178 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 57 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 283 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 43 | 3.9 |
| 2023 | 165 | 1st lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 32 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 225 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 62 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 357 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 62 | 4.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-26 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.029).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6737 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 42% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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