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ALBERT CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000501 · 1 · ALBERT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1889-07-31 — 71st most senior of the 360 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: HEINI AND OAKS DITCH (1887-06-24). Immediately behind: ALBERT CREEK DITCH NO 3 (1889-07-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.14457 | 1889-07-31 | 1911-08-03 | 8.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 588 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 218 AF — 37% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 670 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 79 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 1,049 | 15th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 63 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 958 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 65 | 10.4 |
| 2010 | 642 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 55 | 8.2 |
| 2011 | 828 | 13th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 48 | 12.1 |
| 2012 | 374 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 75 | 4.3 |
| 2013 | 539 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 51 | 7.5 |
| 2014 | 581 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 47 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 521 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 65 | 5.7 |
| 2016 | 588 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 699 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 59 | 9.1 |
| 2018 | 552 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 51 | 9.2 |
| 2019 | 645 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 66 | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 329 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 35 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 218 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 36 | 5.0 |
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