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Structure dossier · WDID 5100714 · 1 · EIGHTMILE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 1884-06-20 — 38th 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: BEHRENS DITCH (1884-06-20). Immediately behind: COLE NO 1 DITCH (SOUTH BANK) (1884-06-30).

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
12590.01884-06-201906-08-11 1.00.0 CIRR 26

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 11 AF — 31% 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)
1998 34 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 24 0.8
1999 60 13th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 31 1.0
2000 53 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 31 1.0
2001 42 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 35 1.0
2002 49 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 30 1.0
2005 36 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 31 0.6
2007 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2010 27 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 42 0.5
2014 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2016 28 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 30 0.5
2017 73 14th lowest of 15 · 203% of median 38 1.0
2018 53 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 46 1.0
2019 199 15th lowest of 15 · 553% of median 69 2.0
2020 21 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median 31 0.5
2022 11 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median 26 0.3

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