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DREYFUSS DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4300608 · 1 · MILLER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1886-05-05 — 581st most senior of the 3293 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: G V DITCH (1886-05-01). Immediately behind: FRANK SMITH DITCH (1888-05-01).

Decreed rights (4)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
18172.132741886-05-051899-10-03 2.80.0 CIRR 39A
19502.158881893-07-011903-10-06 0.60.0 CIRR 144
39776.355631947-05-151966-11-21 2.490.0 CIRR 642
57708.458061975-05-312008-12-31 3.50.0 CIRRSTK 642

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,205 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,919 AF — 132% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 2,780 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 165 10.6
2010 2,596 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 135 11.3
2011 2,205 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 166 11.3
2012 1,889 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 150 9.4
2013 1,881 4th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 171 10.6
2014 2,109 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 125 9.4
2015 945 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median 85 7.0
2016 278 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median 30 5.0
2017 2,841 14th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 159 9.3
2019 2,626 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 189 7.2
2020 2,266 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 187 6.1
2022 2,055 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 176 6.1
2023 1,636 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median 163 8.2
2024 2,326 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 169 10.6
2025 2,919 15th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 171 12.0

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