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LONE TREE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4800535 · 1 · LONE TREE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1894-10-24 — 28th most senior of the 143 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: LINK DITCH 1 (1894-06-01). Immediately behind: SLOUGH CREEK DITCH (1896-05-30).

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
16368.01894-10-241896-10-30 25.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 210 AF — 375% of that, and 14th 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)
2007 56 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 21 3.6
2009 117 12th lowest of 15 · 209% of median 34 4.1
2010 64 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 23 3.2
2011 89 11th lowest of 15 · 159% of median 33 3.2
2012 42 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 17 2.5
2013 37 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median 16 1.7
2014 27 1st lowest of 15 · 48% of median 13 1.5
2015 37 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median 16 1.7
2016 37 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median 16 1.6
2017 54 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 27 1.7
2018 49 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 19 2.4
2019 62 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 33 1.1
2022 182 13th lowest of 15 · 325% of median 39 4.2
2023 286 15th lowest of 15 · 511% of median 59 6.3
2024 210 14th lowest of 15 · 375% of median 37 5.6

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.