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Structure dossier · WDID 5000582 · 1 · RED DIRT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1883-06-05 — 7th 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: HARDSCRABBLE DITCH (1883-06-05). Immediately behind: DEBERARD DITCH OVERFLOW SYSTEM (1883-06-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12209.0 | 1883-06-05 | 1906-08-11 | 4.448 | 0.0 | C | IRRFISFIRSTKAUGOTHWLD | 11 |
| 13083.0 | 1885-10-26 | 1906-08-11 | 7.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 20 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,289 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,686 AF — 131% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,717 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 62 | 18.8 |
| 2011 | 2,325 | 15th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 67 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 1,517 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 68 | 16.0 |
| 2013 | 1,908 | 13th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 49 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 2,237 | 14th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 73 | 22.5 |
| 2015 | 1,633 | 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 53 | 23.3 |
| 2016 | 1,289 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 54 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 1,260 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 63 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 841 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 58 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 1,186 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 74 | 15.0 |
| 2020 | 50 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 22 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 956 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 66 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 1,007 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 77 | 10.0 |
| 2023 | 889 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 63 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 1,686 | 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 73 | 18.0 |
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