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CRYSTAL SPRING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700576 · 1 · CRYSTAL SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1888-06-22 — 176th most senior of the 1262 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: JAY DITCH (1888-06-20). Immediately behind: BERN DITCH (1888-07-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14053.0 | 1888-06-22 | 1892-09-19 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 150(137) |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 152 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 33 AF — 22% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 218 | 10th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 116 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 603 | 15th lowest of 15 · 397% of median | 304 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 120 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 83 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 347 | 13th lowest of 15 · 228% of median | 177 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 369 | 14th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 187 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 321 | 12th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 163 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 250 | 11th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 169 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 150 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 97 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 152 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 104 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 202 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 137 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 63 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 111 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 54 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 58 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 64 | 5th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 68 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 40 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 68 | 0.3 |
| 2025 | 33 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 45 | 0.6 |
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