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LYNX CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300780 · 1 · LYNX CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1901-05-01 — 959th 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: TUCKER WELL (1931-05-31). Immediately behind: BEAR CREEK DITCH (1903-10-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29813.18748 | 1901-05-01 | 1932-08-15 | 2.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 322 |
| 32172.18779 | 1901-06-01 | 1942-05-26 | 2.39 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 394 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 249 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 131 AF — 53% of that, and 4th 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 | 437 | 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 140 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 742 | 15th lowest of 15 · 298% of median | 144 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 249 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 163 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 396 | 13th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 180 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 261 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 207 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 82 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 60 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 270 | 12th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 71 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 269 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 110 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 261 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 170 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 131 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 158 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 124 | 0.7 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 32 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 196 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 97 | 2.0 |
| 2025 | 131 | 4th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 121 | 0.7 |
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