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Structure dossier · WDID 4700886 · 1 · OWL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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 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 1886-04-30 — 74th 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: LITTLE NELLIE DITCH (1886-04-30). Immediately behind: EDITH DITCH (1886-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13269.0 | 1886-04-30 | 1892-09-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 51(49) |
| 14052.0 | 1888-06-21 | 1892-09-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 145(132) |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 515 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 719 AF — 140% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 506 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 40 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 7 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 482 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 43 | 6.4 |
| 2014 | 787 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 36 | 13.1 |
| 2015 | 802 | 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 81 | 9.1 |
| 2016 | 295 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 60 | 7.3 |
| 2017 | 1,873 | 15th lowest of 15 · 364% of median | 168 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 978 | 13th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 57 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 1,203 | 14th lowest of 15 · 234% of median | 83 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 429 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 76 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 692 | 9th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 57 | 12.0 |
| 2023 | 434 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 77 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 515 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 33 | 8.1 |
| 2025 | 719 | 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 63 | 10.0 |
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