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EAST DIVIDE CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500584 · 1 · EAST DIVIDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:29 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.
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 1882-08-09 — 5th 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: MINEOTA DITCH (1882-05-25). Immediately behind: CLAUSEN AND BYRNE DITCH (1883-03-01).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11909.0 | 1882-08-09 | 1888-05-05 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
| 12919.0 | 1885-05-15 | 1888-05-05 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 31 |
| 30170.11909 | 1882-08-09 | 1939-06-22 | 0.83 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | |
| 30170.13011 | 1885-08-15 | 1939-06-22 | 0.83 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | |
| 30170.22736 | 1912-04-01 | 1939-06-22 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30170.22738 | 1912-04-03 | 1939-06-22 | 11.08 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA3253, CA0089, 06CW0144, 05/05/1888.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3253 | 4 | 1939-06-22 | S |
CA0089 | 3 | 1888-05-05 | O |
06CW0144 | 1 | 1888-05-05 | O |
05/05/1888 | 1 | 1888-05-05 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,810 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,833 AF — 101% of that, and 9th 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 | 1,875 | 11th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 190 | 15.0 |
| 2011 | 2,085 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 134 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 1,173 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 82 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,609 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 137 | 10.0 |
| 2014 | 2,043 | 12th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 161 | 15.0 |
| 2015 | 2,532 | 15th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 198 | 10.0 |
| 2016 | 1,863 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 160 | 12.0 |
| 2017 | 1,718 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 146 | 13.0 |
| 2018 | 1,419 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 90 | 12.0 |
| 2019 | 2,284 | 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 133 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 1,035 | 1st lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 72 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 1,250 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 87 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 1,648 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 116 | 12.0 |
| 2023 | 1,810 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 149 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 1,833 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 176 | 10.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 7760 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 73% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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