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WEST DIVIDE CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500818 · 1 · WEST DIVIDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1885-11-02 — 40th 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: EMANUEL GANT DITCH (1885-10-25). Immediately behind: HUDSON & SULLIVAN DITCH (1885-11-15).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13090.0 | 1885-11-02 | 1888-05-05 | 5.17 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 42 |
| 13816.0 | 1887-10-29 | 1888-05-05 | 2.92 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 98 |
| 19719.16527 | 1895-04-01 | 1904-03-07 | 2.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 117E |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,545 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,953 AF — 126% of that, and 14th 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 | 1,557 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 86 | 15.1 |
| 2011 | 1,263 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 61 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 1,414 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 81 | 11.9 |
| 2013 | 1,235 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 69 | 11.7 |
| 2014 | 1,769 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 100 | 16.0 |
| 2015 | 1,782 | 12th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 198 | 10.9 |
| 2016 | 1,892 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 102 | 13.0 |
| 2017 | 1,691 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 149 | 10.9 |
| 2018 | 1,200 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 77 | 13.2 |
| 2019 | 2,290 | 15th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 126 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 1,231 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 74 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 1,077 | 1st lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 66 | 10.9 |
| 2022 | 1,512 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 81 | 10.9 |
| 2023 | 1,545 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 83 | 16.0 |
| 2024 | 1,953 | 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 199 | 13.0 |
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