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POLE CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500724 · 1 · POLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1907-05-15 — 198th 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: STARBUCK AND PAXTON D (1906-08-15). Immediately behind: HIGHEST DITCH (1909-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23747.20953 | 1907-05-15 | 1915-07-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 142BB-1 |
| 23747.21715 | 1909-06-15 | 1915-07-31 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143AAB |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 107 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 389 AF — 364% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 35 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 26 | 0.7 |
| 1994 | 69 | 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 30 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 107 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 1.5 |
| 1996 | 38 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 17 | 1.2 |
| 1997 | 270 | 9th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 139 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 417 | 12th lowest of 15 · 390% of median | 43 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 52 | 4th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
| 2001 | 87 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 26 | 1.8 |
| 2003 | 61 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 19 | 1.8 |
| 2005 | 738 | 14th lowest of 15 · 690% of median | 51 | 10.5 |
| 2006 | 366 | 10th lowest of 15 · 342% of median | 22 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 670 | 13th lowest of 15 · 626% of median | 54 | 8.0 |
| 2008 | 1,221 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1141% of median | 45 | 26.0 |
| 2009 | 389 | 11th lowest of 15 · 364% of median | 66 | 4.0 |
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