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ALBERT CREEK DITCH NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 5000503 · 1 · ALBERT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 — 72nd 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: ALBERT CREEK DITCH (1889-07-31). Immediately behind: DIETRICH DITCH NO 1 (1889-12-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
20676.144571889-07-311911-08-03 1.00.0 CIRR 81

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 76 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 85 AF — 112% of that, and 12th 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)
2005 84 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 53 1.5
2006 82 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 74 0.7
2007 62 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 44 1.0
2008 93 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 48 1.8
2009 77 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 36 1.6
2010 154 15th lowest of 15 · 203% of median 55 1.6
2011 53 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 48 0.8
2012 33 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median 43 0.5
2013 129 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median 50 1.6
2014 76 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 60 1.0
2015 71 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 46 0.8
2016 51 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median 46 1.2
2017 59 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 44 0.8
2018 17 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median 18 0.5
2019 85 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 66 1.3

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