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REEDER CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100850 · 1 · REEDER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1902-10-01 — 223rd 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: BERTHOUD CANAL AND RESERVOIR TUNNEL (1902-06-30). Immediately behind: RAUH NO 2 DITCH (SOUTH BANK) (1903-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.19266 | 1902-10-01 | 1911-08-03 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 224 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 892 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 592 AF — 66% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 209 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 56 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 972 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 101 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 987 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 118 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 896 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 101 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 987 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 141 | 4.8 |
| 2015 | 1,398 | 15th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 120 | 10.7 |
| 2016 | 997 | 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 109 | 8.5 |
| 2017 | 859 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 80 | 11.0 |
| 2018 | 892 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 790 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 104 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 1,002 | 14th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 110 | 6.6 |
| 2021 | 697 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 100 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 626 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 97 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 813 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 96 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 592 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 68 | 6.2 |
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