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Structure dossier · WDID 5000628 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1903-06-01 — 66th 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: ALPHA DITCH (1903-06-01). Immediately behind: HAZEL CREEK DITCH (1903-08-28).

Decreed rights (4)

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
19509.01903-06-011906-08-11 0.00.0 CIRR 69
20676.205881906-05-151911-08-03 0.00.0 CIRR 101
22494.217541909-07-241922-08-05 7.00.0 CIRR 119
23190.01913-06-291915-03-20 2.50.0 CIRR 128

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,016 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 960 AF — 94% of that, and 6th 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)
2010 1,214 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 58 17.2
2011 1,713 15th lowest of 15 · 169% of median 57 18.1
2012 18 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median 10 1.0
2013 994 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 72 12.5
2014 1,234 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 58 13.1
2015 852 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 46 11.2
2016 1,472 14th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 69 12.0
2017 929 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 51 10.0
2018 1,249 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 63 18.6
2019 1,144 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 75 14.0
2020 843 3rd lowest of 15 · 83% of median 56 10.0
2021 799 2nd lowest of 15 · 79% of median 68 10.0
2022 1,016 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 65 10.0
2023 1,051 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 67 10.0
2024 960 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 58 12.4

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