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DRY PARK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200544 · 1 · CASTLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1887-03-20 — 7th most senior of the 562 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: LAVA CREEK DITCH (1886-05-15). Immediately behind: HARTMAN DITCH (1887-04-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13593.0 | 1887-03-20 | 1890-11-20 | 4.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 7 |
| 21275.0 | 1908-04-01 | 1909-06-07 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 86 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 619 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,026 AF — 166% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 558 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 115 | 4.1 |
| 2009 | 501 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 117 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 529 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 129 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 1,062 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 132 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 274 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 73 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 545 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 106 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 976 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 108 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 619 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 214 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 933 | 9th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 204 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 953 | 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 127 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 308 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 55 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 1,508 | 15th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 119 | 12.4 |
| 2020 | 278 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 116 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 1,183 | 14th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 129 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 1,026 | 12th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 106 | 6.4 |
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