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CROOKED DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500561 · 1 · DRY HOLLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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.
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 1911-07-01 — 209th most senior of the 1378 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: VALENTINE DITCH (1908-12-05). Immediately behind: BEAR SPRINGS DITCH (1904-05-08).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24826.22461 | 1911-07-01 | 1917-12-22 | 1.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 145AAAB |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 149 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 67 AF — 45% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 244 | 10th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 73 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 927 | 15th lowest of 15 · 622% of median | 188 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 619 | 13th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 208 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 626 | 14th lowest of 15 · 420% of median | 259 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 99 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 103 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 155 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 70 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 45 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 240 | 9th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 172 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | 436 | 11th lowest of 15 · 293% of median | 143 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 567 | 12th lowest of 15 · 380% of median | 164 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 128 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 88 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 133 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 155 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 149 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 141 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 67 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 18 | 2.0 |
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