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SPRING DITCH NO 2

Structure dossier · WDID 4500949 · 4 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1896-04-20 — 525th 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: SPRING DITCH NO 1 (1896-04-20). Immediately behind: SPRING DITCH NO 3 (1896-04-20).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
44925.169121896-04-201973-12-31 0.290.0 CIRRSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 106 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 119 AF — 112% of that, and 13th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1987 136 15th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 236 0.3
1988 37 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median 188 0.1
1989 110 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 192 0.3
1990 133 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 231 0.3
1995 33 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median 59 0.3
1996 106 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 184 0.3
1997 106 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 184 0.3
1998 106 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 184 0.3
1999 104 4th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 180 0.3
2000 101 3rd lowest of 15 · 95% of median 175 0.3
2001 106 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 184 0.3
2002 112 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 195 0.3
2003 115 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 200 0.3
2004 118 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 205 0.3
2005 119 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 207 0.3

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.