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DEER CK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400591 · 1 · DEER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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 1888-05-20 — 52nd most senior of the 3562 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: WISCONSIN DITCH (1888-05-19). Immediately behind: HIGHLINE DITCH (1888-05-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14020.0 | 1888-05-20 | 1894-09-22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 41 |
| 36295.23496 | 1914-05-01 | 1960-09-01 | 1.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 30B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 127 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 127 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 59 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 17 | 2.7 |
| 2012 | 180 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 58 | 2.1 |
| 2013 | 152 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 34 | 2.4 |
| 2014 | 246 | 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 53 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 142 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 53 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 156 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 46 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 40 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 124 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 36 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 136 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 41 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 47 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 32 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 73 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 27 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 84 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 31 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 156 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 49 | 1.8 |
| 2025 | 127 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 45 | 1.5 |
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