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DOE CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100607 · 1 · DOE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:16 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 in line
Priority 1904-09-01 — 364th most senior of the 2208 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: DALE DITCH (1916-06-10). Immediately behind: JOHNSON DITCH (1919-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27960.19967 | 1904-09-01 | 1927-03-09 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 371 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 213 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 100 AF — 47% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 271 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 58 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 303 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 69 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 224 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 52 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 396 | 15th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 82 | 3.0 |
| 1996 | 238 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 60 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 254 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 81 | 3.0 |
| 1998 | 260 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 81 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 61 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 35 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | 1st lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 38 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 41 | 0.6 |
| 2002 | 139 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 49 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 213 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 71 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 103 | 6th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 80 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 83 | 4th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 57 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 100 | 5th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 73 | 1.0 |
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