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NELLIE E DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700788 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:50 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 1903-12-31 — 467th 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: JAMES D DITCH (1893-05-31). Immediately behind: HUBBARD DITCH 4 (1908-07-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23016.19722 | 1903-12-31 | 1923-03-06 | 6.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 376 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3571.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3571 | 1 | 1923-03-06 | S |
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 60 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 140 | 10th lowest of 15 · 233% of median | 62 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 305 | 14th lowest of 15 · 508% of median | 160 | 4.5 |
| 2006 | 216 | 13th lowest of 15 · 360% of median | 145 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 333 | 15th lowest of 15 · 555% of median | 151 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 201 | 11th lowest of 15 · 335% of median | 146 | 0.9 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 60 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 107 | 9th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 37 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 20 | 5th lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 42 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 39 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 40 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 31 | 6th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 10 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 207 | 12th lowest of 15 · 345% of median | 40 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4431 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 1971-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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