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TROUBLESOME DITCH WASTE - SEEPAGE AND SP

Structure dossier · WDID 5000655 · 1 · WASTE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1900-08-31 — 86th 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: BADGER CREEK DITCH NO 1 (1899-08-08). Immediately behind: ZWAHLEN NO 1 DITCH (1902-07-06).

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
20676.185051900-08-311911-08-03 0.50.0 CIRR 92

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 88 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 60 AF — 68% of that, and 3rd 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)
2002 11 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median 19 0.3
2003 82 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 119 0.5
2004 77 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 100 0.5
2005 88 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 64 0.8
2006 56 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 48 0.6
2007 94 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 50 1.2
2008 126 14th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 84 0.9
2009 103 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 70 0.8
2010 115 13th lowest of 15 · 131% of median 54 1.2
2011 108 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 63 1.0
2012 77 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 73 0.6
2013 126 14th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 72 1.2
2015 99 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 80 0.8
2016 60 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 57 0.6
2017 60 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 57 0.6

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.