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SOLDIER CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300934 · 1 · SOLDIER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:25 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1916-08-01 — 1034th 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: BANTA DITCH (1916-04-01). Immediately behind: MCKEE DITCH (1917-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32172.24319 | 1916-08-01 | 1942-05-26 | 4.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 465 |
| 32172.25702 | 1920-05-15 | 1942-05-26 | 2.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 471F |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 424 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 55 AF — 13% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 540 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 140 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 460 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 121 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 257 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 147 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 318 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 130 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 536 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 88 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 653 | 15th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 95 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 260 | 6th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 80 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 438 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 66 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 424 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 202 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 52 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 430 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 80 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 603 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 117 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 255 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 67 | 2.8 |
| 2025 | 55 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 47 | 1.0 |
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