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LAKE CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700714 · 1 · LAKE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:49 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.
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 1892-09-19 — 258th 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: JOHN S SUTTON DITCH (1892-09-19). Immediately behind: MACFARLANE MEADOWS D (1892-09-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15603.0 | 1892-09-19 | 1908-07-01 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 134 |
| 16937.0 | 1896-05-15 | 1908-07-01 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147 |
| 19492.0 | 1903-05-15 | 1908-07-01 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 166 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA1784.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1784 | 3 | 1908-07-01 | 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 578 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 52 AF — 9% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 494 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 94 | 7.0 |
| 2006 | 964 | 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 112 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 556 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 109 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 1,089 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 69 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 1,077 | 12th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 98 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 744 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 76 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 506 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 52 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 1,132 | 14th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 98 | 6.5 |
| 2015 | 462 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 26 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 598 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 93 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 578 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 2,758 | 15th lowest of 15 · 477% of median | 127 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 272 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 62 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 52 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 53 | 0.5 |
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 (7/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3453 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 30% of the irrigation seasons in 1971-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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